This chapter adds to an argument already developing in the heritage literature, which frames international policy — charters, conventions, declarations, recommendations, resolution and so forth — as something of an ‘offshore’ resource for domestic policymakers in a range of countries. As such, it is utilized and drawn upon by many different nations, thereby creating a process through which an institutionalized and limited representation of heritage is reproduced, disseminated and universalized. It is at the international level that many of the ‘rules of the game’ are set in place, whether in the form of texts delineating ‘best practice’, the enunciation of norms and principles, or the creation of regulatory systems of penalty and consequence. Like others before me, such as Denis Byrne (1991) and Laurajane Smith (2006), I do not wish to frame this as a deliberate or mindful ploy. Rather, I suggest it is a consequence of the discoursal phenomenon described in the previous chapter, wherein we were required to abandon the idea of language as simple communication. Instead, I want to examine the discursive modes operating at the global level in which dominant representations of heritage find favour — global spaces wherein it becomes possible to locate countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Italy as ‘knowing’ and influential subjects.