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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1993, this is part of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva series. This study looks at whether scholars of international politics attempt to understand cooperative behavior in the light of the theories developed by the observers of both conflict and of cooperation. This volume expands the short list of such works and does so with insight, a wide range of scholarship and a willingness to test particular cases against existing theory. The author has written a book which expands the knowledge of, but also a thoughtful improvement of existing theoretical approaches. Uvin's universe of enquiry excludes military power and its application. It concentrates on the long-term, complex organization of cooperative transnational behavior and its rationale. Its focusses on functional issues involving world hunger, a haunting background and result, and perhaps even one cause, of the dreadful violence that characterizes our world even as the threat of catastrophic nuclear warfare has declined.
Table of ContentsPart 1 International Politics and Food: The Framework 1 Combining Social Sciences: the Sociology of International Politics 2 Food Production: the Political Economy of Inefficiency Part II The International Organization of Food and Hunger 3 Understanding Hunger 4 On Wars Fought with Butter, not with Guns: the International Food Trade Outcome 5 Regimes, Surplus and Self-Interest: the International Politics of Food Aid, Part 1 The Politics Food Aid Part II Food Aid and Hunger 6 The Unbearable Lightness of Beings: the International Organization of Population 7 The Years of Adjusting Dangerously Part 1 Structural Adjustment and Conditionality Part II Agriculture, Politics, the Poor and Structural Adjustment, Conclusion: Interdependence, Regimes and Hegemony
