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Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law

Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law

Name: Sugar and the Making of International Trade Law
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781316633472
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Author: Michael Fakhri
ISBN: 9781316633472

By Michael Fakhri

Cambridge University Press May 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781316633472
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: May 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book traces the changing meanings of free trade over the past century through three sugar treaties and their concomitant institutions. The 1902 Brussels Convention is an example of how free trade buttressed the British Empire.

The 1937 International Sugar Agreement is a story of how a group of Cubans renegotiated their state's colonial relationship with the US through free trade doctrine and the League of Nations. And the study of the 1977 International Sugar Agreement maps the world of international trade law through a plethora of institutions such as the ITO, UNCTAD, GATT and international commodity agreements - all against the backdrop of competing Third World agendas.

Through a legal study of free trade ideas, interests and institutions, this book highlights how the line between the state and market, domestic and international, and public and private is always a matter of contest.

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