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Shadow Negotiators is the first book to demonstrate that United
Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence the
discourse, agenda, and outcomes of international trade lawmaking at
the World Trade Organization (WTO). While UN organizations lack a
seat at the bargaining table at the WTO, Matias E. Margulis argues
that these organizations have acted as "shadow negotiators" engaged
in political actions intended to alter the trajectory and results
of multilateral trade negotiations. He draws on analysis of one of
the most contested issues in global trade politics, agricultural
trade liberalization, to demonstrate interventions by four
different UN organizations-the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Special Rapporteur
on the Right to Food (SRRTF). By identifying several novel
intervention strategies used by UN actors to shape the rules of
global trade, this book shows that UN organizations chose to
intervene in trade lawmaking not out of competition with the WTO or
ideological resistance to trade liberalization, but out of concerns
that specific trade rules could have negative consequences for
world food security-an outcome these organizations viewed as
undermining their social purpose to reduce world hunger and protect
the human right to food.
Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical
precedents in the eras of imperialism. However, the character,
scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land
grabs is a distinct historical event closely tied to the changing
dynamics of the global agri-food, feed and fuel complex. Land
grabbing is facilitated by ever greater flows of capital, goods,
and ideas across borders, and these flows occur through axes of
power that are far more polycentric than the North-South
imperialist tradition. Land grabs occur in the context of changes
in the character of the global food regime, formerly anchored by
North Atlantic empires; the integrated food-energy complex seems to
be headed towards multiple centres of power, especially with the
rise of the BRICS and the proliferation of middle income countries
participating in many of the land transactions. Land Grabbing and
Global Governance offers insights from leading scholars and experts
on contemporary land grabs. This volume examines land grabs in
direct relation to a global economy undergoing profound change and
the role of new configurations of actors and power in governance
institutions and practices. This book was published as a special
issue of Globalizations.
The Global Political Economy of Raul Prebisch offers an original
analysis of global political economy by examining it through the
ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers,
leaders and personalities. Prebisch's ground-breaking ideas as an
economist - the terms-of-trade thesis and the economic case for
state-led industrialization - changed the world and guided economic
policy across the global South. As the head of two UN bodies - the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and
later the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD) - he was at the frontline of key North-South political
struggles for a fairer global distribution of wealth and the
regulation of transnational corporations. Prebisch increasingly
came to view political power, not just economic capabilities, as
pivotal to shaping the institutions and rules of the world economy.
This book contextualizes his ideas, exploring how they were used
and their relevance to contemporary issues. The neoliberal turn in
economics in North America, Western Europe and across the global
South led to an active discrediting of Prebisch's theories and this
volume offers an important corrective, reintroducing current and
future generations of scholars and students to this important body
of work and allowing a richer understanding of past and ongoing
political struggles.
Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical
precedents in the eras of imperialism. However, the character,
scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land
grabs is a distinct historical event closely tied to the changing
dynamics of the global agri-food, feed and fuel complex. Land
grabbing is facilitated by ever greater flows of capital, goods,
and ideas across borders, and these flows occur through axes of
power that are far more polycentric than the North-South
imperialist tradition. Land grabs occur in the context of changes
in the character of the global food regime, formerly anchored by
North Atlantic empires; the integrated food-energy complex seems to
be headed towards multiple centres of power, especially with the
rise of the BRICS and the proliferation of middle income countries
participating in many of the land transactions. Land Grabbing and
Global Governance offers insights from leading scholars and experts
on contemporary land grabs. This volume examines land grabs in
direct relation to a global economy undergoing profound change and
the role of new configurations of actors and power in governance
institutions and practices. This book was published as a special
issue of Globalizations.
The Global Political Economy of Raul Prebisch offers an original
analysis of global political economy by examining it through the
ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers,
leaders and personalities. Prebisch's ground-breaking ideas as an
economist - the terms-of-trade thesis and the economic case for
state-led industrialization - changed the world and guided economic
policy across the global South. As the head of two UN bodies - the
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and
later the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD) - he was at the frontline of key North-South political
struggles for a fairer global distribution of wealth and the
regulation of transnational corporations. Prebisch increasingly
came to view political power, not just economic capabilities, as
pivotal to shaping the institutions and rules of the world economy.
This book contextualizes his ideas, exploring how they were used
and their relevance to contemporary issues. The neoliberal turn in
economics in North America, Western Europe and across the global
South led to an active discrediting of Prebisch's theories and this
volume offers an important corrective, reintroducing current and
future generations of scholars and students to this important body
of work and allowing a richer understanding of past and ongoing
political struggles.
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