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Summary:

"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), World Food Programme (WFP), Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and 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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Intervention by international organizations
• The regime complex for food security
• The FAO : mobilizing states to protect food security
• Don't take food from the starving : the WFP publicly shames WTO members
• The OHCHR invokes human rights at the WTO
• The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food : "food security hostage to trade."

Author/Creator:

Margulis, Matias , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Shadow negotiators: how UN organizations shape the rules of world trade for food security [by Margulis, M.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Shadow negotiators [by Margulis, M.] (Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023 — ISBN 9781503634503; LCCN 2022011764)

Related Series:

Emerging frontiers in the global economy

Subjects:

United Nations

World Trade Organization

Food security — Government policy

Right to food — Government policy

Agriculture and state

Produce trade — Government policy

Foreign trade regulation

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HD9000.6 .M365 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781503634503 (electronic bk.)
1503634507 (electronic bk.)
9781503633520 [Invalid]
1503633527 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1350644965

Other Control Numbers:

EBC30321323 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp304085367