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Farm Wars

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Robert Wolfe

    1. School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert Wolfe
    Pages 1-9

  3. The GATT is Not a Free Trade Agreement: The Trade Regime and the Double Movement

    • Robert Wolfe
    Pages 10-42

  4. The Double Movement on the Farm: Structural Change and the International Organization of Agriculture

    • Robert Wolfe
    Pages 43-80

  5. Governing a Global Trading System: The Uruguay Round as a Single Undertaking

    • Robert Wolfe
    Pages 81-105

  6. Opening Up the Green Box: Agriculture in the Final Act of the Uruguay Round

    • Robert Wolfe
    Pages 106-146

  7. The Message in the Green Box

    • Robert Wolfe
    Pages 147-163

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 164-235
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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.

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'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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  • School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

    Robert Wolfe

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