This book seeks to disentangle the emerging relationships between people and land in Sudan. The first part focuses on the spatial impact of resource-extracting economies: foreign agricultural land acquisitions; Chinese investments in oil production; and competition between artis…
"This book contributes an original theory to understanding human rights and international trade. It offers the 'governance space' framework for analysing the linkages and normative relationships between the multilateral trading system (MTS) and human rights regimes. Drawing upon…
Machine generated contents note: Introduction * PART 1: STATES, AGRICULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION * The Rise of the Modern State: From Street Gangs to Mafias * States, Markets, and the Origins of International Inequality * Economic and Hegemonic Cycles * The Industrial Revolution a…
Part 1. Introduction to international trade -- part 2. Patterns of international trade -- part 3. New explanations for international trade -- part 4. International trade policies
Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, afte…