While food security has become a major issue in global governance following the 2007-2008 global food crisis, there is no single international institution responsible for the management of this issue. Instead, responsibility for food security is spread out among a number of international...

Scholars have long observed that states play off overlapping international institutions against one another in an effort to advance their policy objectives. This article identifies a strategy utilized by the EU in response to regime complexity that I term “backdoor bargaining.” Unlike...

The majority of governments, the UN, World Bank, IMF, and NGOs agree that putting an end to rich countries' farm subsidies is what is required to make global agricultural trade fair and help lift developing countries out of poverty. How did this consensus of opinion come to be and what does it...

Skyrocketing food prices in 2007 and 2008 have produced social and political unrest in many developing countries and threaten to precipitate an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. This review looks at the present food crisis through the analytical lenses of international political economy and...

Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Intervention by International Organizations -- 2. The Regime Complex for Food Security -- 3. The FAO: Mobilizing States to Protect Food Security -- 4....