Shadow Negotiators: How Un Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security

Shadow Negotiators is the first book to demonstrate that United Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence...
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Author: Matias E. Margulis
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Shadow Negotiators: How Un Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security by Margulis, Matias E.

Shadow Negotiators: How Un Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security

$258.72

Shadow Negotiators: How Un Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security

$258.72
Author: Matias E. Margulis
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Matias E. Margulis
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 02/07/2023
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781503633520

About the Author
Matias E. Margulis is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. He is the co-editor for two books: The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch (2017) and Land Grabbing and Global Governance (2014).

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