Sugar Refined Power in a Global Regime [Hardcover]

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 regime, and where power ultimately lies.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 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 Trade 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 Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index

Short-listed for the BISA International Political Economy Group Book Prize 2010

BEN RICHARDSON is Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.