Shadow Negotiators How un Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security

In a work relevant to scholarship in international relations, international political economy, and global governance, Margulis (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) describes, theorizes, and analyzes the actions four UN-based international organizations undertook during negotiations held under World Trade Organization authority. These negotiations unfolded at a time when the WTO was extending its authority over agriculture. The secretariats of these organizations took action independent of their member states to influence the discourse, agendas, and outcomes of deliberations they were not party to and where potential actions threatened the values and objectives held by those intervening.