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Unlike the original 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and trade (GATT), the 1994 Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO Agreement)1covers a much wider range of trade. It extends beyond goods and now embraces services, intellectual property, procurement, investment and agriculture. Moreover, the new trade regime is no longer a collection of ad hoc agreements, Panel reports and understandings of the parties. All trade obligations are subsumed under the umbrella of the WTO, of which all parties are members. Member States have to accept the obligations contained in all the WTO covered agreements: they cannot pick and choose.

Part I: Globalization and Global Concern. Chapter 1. Globalization and Global Concern -- Chapter 2. Globalization, Culture, and Consumerism -- Part II: Psychology of Globalization: Basic Processes. Chapter 3. Consumer Identities, Consumer Selfhood, and the Stability of Consumer Societies -- Chapter 4. The Interplay Between Social Identities and Globalization -- Chapter 5. A Political Psychology of Responses to Globalization -- Chapter 6. Collective Action in a Global Context -- Part III: Issues in Depth. Chapter 7. Social Identity and Responses to Global Environmental Crises -- Chapter 8. Social Identity and the Challenges of Migration and Multiculturalism -- Part IV: Conclusion. Chapter 9. Psychology in the Nexus of Global Governance, Economies, and Sustainability.

Previous research indicates that people who are highly identified with their groups tend to remain committed to them under threat. This study examines the generalizability of this effect to (a) a real-life context involving the perception that others view the ingroup (Australians) as intolerant of minorities and (b) various dimensions of social identification. The sample comprised 213 respondents to a random mail survey. Perceived threat was inversely related to self-stereotyping (i.e. perceptions of self-ingroup similarity), but only for individuals with weak subjective ties to other group members. Threat perceptions were also predictive of enhanced judgments of within-group variability on threat-relevant dimensions, particularly for individuals with weaker ingroup ties. Various strategies for coping with a threatened social identity are linked to different facets of social identification.