The 1902 Brussels Convention, which discouraged sugar-production subsidies through countervailing duties, created what was arguably the first modern multilateral trade institution. This treaty not only defined the concept of free trade but also reconfigured the political structure of the British...

Th is paper sketches out some preliminary thoughts on political economy that stem from problematics that emerge from Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). The TWAIL story of international law is one of frustration and disappointment because of the constant exploitation of the...

To many in the West, the League of Nations was to establish political peace between nations. To the Cuban sugar-producing elite of the 1920s and 1930s, however, the League was an important socioeconomic institution used to augment many of Cuba’s first modern state institutions. This article...

There is an emerging consensus that the WTO is in grave need of institutional redesign. For the last fifteen years, questions of WTO institutional reform have been framed as a matter of improving the WTO’s legitimacy. This Article suggests that thinking about WTO redesign as a matter of...

People use different terms when discussing food politics – food security, food justice, right to food, and food sovereignty. These terms are at the center of a very contentious political debate about how and why food matters and what is to be done to change the current global food system. Many...