Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law

ISBN-13: 9781316633472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 277 str.

Michael Fakhri

Opis

Michael Fakhri uses the transnational history of sugar to tell the multilateral institutional history of trade law.

Recenzje

'Sugar and the Making of international Trade Law provides a great addition to undergraduate or graduate courses on food justice, global studies, international trade, economic concepts, and postecolonialism. Scholars and advocates will relish its topical insights, while teachers will enjoy working through its approach with students.' Ernesto Hernández-López, Gastronomica

Spis treści

Part I. Prologue: 1. International institutions as part of the history of agriculture; 2. Histories as context; Part II. The 1902 Brussels Convention and the Beginnings of Modern Trade Law: 3. Free trade as an imperial project; 4. The institutionalization of international trade; Part III. The 1937 ISA, Cuba and the League of Nations: 5. Economic aspects of the League of Nations; 6. Developing a Cuban State and renegotiating American imperialism; Part IV. The 1977 ISA and the Implications of Institutionalization: 7. The postwar institutional landscape; 8. The 1977 ISA as an exemplar of postwar ICAs; Part V. Epilogue: 9. Using the past to open up the future of trade law.