Farm Wars

by R. Wolfe

Overview

The Farm War of the early 1980s was rooted in the political economy of agriculture, but it was a crisis for the international trading system. The war was evident in disruptions on the farm and in world markets, in conflicts among major governments, and in disagreements in international organizations. Wolfe shows how and why battles over agricultural protectionism were largely resolved through the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations, demonstrating that the global economy is not self-regulating: it needs institutions if it is to be stable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333665992
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/10/1997
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Figures - List of Charts - List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Glossary - Chronology - Introduction - The GATT is Not a Free Trade Agreement: the Trade Regime and the Double Movement - The Double Movement on the Farm: Structural Change and the International Organization of Agriculture - Governing a Global Trading System: the Uruguay Round as a Single Undertaking - Opening up the Green Box: Agriculture in the Final Act of the Uruguay Round - The Message in the Green Box - Appendix: Text of The Agreement on Agriculture - Notes - Bibliography - Index

Editorial Reviews

'Wolfe has combined a detailed examination of international regimes and agricultural trade, an interesting application of the concept of embedded liberalism as developed by Ruggie on the basis of Polanyi, and a thorough analysis of the Uruguay Round negotiations. In doing so, he has made a notable contribution to the IPE literature generally and the work on multilateral negotiations in the context of the GATT/WTO in particular.' - Andrew F. Cooper, University of Waterloo, Canada

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