Sugar : refined power in a global regime /

"Sugar is a commonplace product with a complex background, mainly because of the high degree of protectionism given to the industry and the benefits of ensuring domestic producers stay in business. This book asks why there are such disagreements over trade policy, who profits within the current...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Richardson, Ben, 1982-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:	International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:	Sugar trade. Sucre > Industrie. Sucre. Commerce agricole. Commerce international. Aspects socio-économiques. Mondialisation. Zuckerweltmarkt Handelspolitik Zuckerhandel Protektionismus Sugar. Economy. International regime. International trade. Market access. Commodities. Exportation and importation. Subsidies and countervailing measures. Trade policy. Zucker. Außenhandel. Zuckermarkt. Zuckerpolitik. Welt. Geschichte 1500-2008
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Table of Contents:

Conceptualising power in the world economy : reviving regimes in IPE theory from a colonial to a national regime, 1500-1945
Imminent crisis and the embryonic global regime, 1945-1994
restructuring in the EU-ACP : out of the strong there came forth sweetness
US under stress : free rrade and fracture in the national regime?
antinomies in Asia : political conflicts in protected markets
The end game of the global regime : A false promise of free markets
Conclusions.