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Shadow negotiators : how UN organizations shape the rules of world trade for food security / Matias E. Margulis.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Emerging frontiers in the global economyPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1503634507
  • 9781503634503
Other title:
  • How United Nations organizations shape the rules of world trade for food security
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shadow negotiatorsLOC classification:
  • HD9000.6 .M365 2023
Online resources:
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."
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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."

"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.

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