Multilateral Negotiations or Coffee Society and Power in Latin America

Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons from Arms Control, Trade, and the Environment

Author: Fen Osler Hampson

Unlike conventional bilateral negotiations, multilateral negotiations are characterized by intensive international discussions that involve multiple actors and interests, highly complex agendas, and differentiated international settings. Political scientist Fen Osler Hampson, with the assistance of trade specialist Michael Hart, studies the component parts of the multilateral negotiation process to identify those factors making for success or failure. The authors argue that multilateral negotiation is, in essence, a coalition-building enterprise involving states, nonstate actors, and international organizations. Individual case studies include discussions on security, the environment, economic issues, and non-governmental actors -- such as scientists and environmental groups like Greenpeace International -- in prenegotiation and negotiation phases.

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Political scientist Hampson, with the assistance of trade specialist Hart, studies the component parts of the multilateral negotiation process to identify those factors making for success or failure. Ranging from the 1963 Test Ban Treaty to the Climate Change Convention (1192) and the completion of the Uruguay Round of GATT (1993), individual case studies include discussions on security, environmental, and economic issues. Of particular interest is the attention given to nongovernmental actors--such as scientists and environmental groups like Greenpeace International--in prenegotiation and negotiation phases. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface and Acknowledgments
1	Multilateral Negotiations	3
2	Barriers to Negotiation and Requisites for Success	23
3	The Limited Test Ban Treaty	55
4	The Stockholm Conference on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe	77
5	Conventional Arms Control: Failure and Success	94
6	The 1947-1948 United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment	125
7	The GATT Uruguay Round, 1986-1993: The Setting and the Players	168
8	The GATT Uruguay Round, 1986-1993: The Negotiations	202
9	The Ozone Accords	255
10	Hazardous Wastes	278
11	Climate Change and Global Warming	300
12	Understanding Multilateral Negotiations: Lessons and Conclusions	345
	Notes	361
	Index	411

Go to: To Begin the World Anew or The Last Undercover

Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America

Author: William Roseberry

In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen minutes. The New York Times reported that near the end, amid a cheering crowd, the man's "gulps were labored, but a physician examining him found him in pretty good shape." The event was part of a marathon coffee-drinking spree set off two years earlier by news from the Commerce Department that coffee imports to the United States amounted to five hundred cups per year per person.

In Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America, a distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine the production, processing, and marketing of this important commodity. Using coffee as a common denominator and focusing on landholding patterns, labor mobilization, class structure, political power, and political ideologies, the authors examine how Latin American countries of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries responded to the growing global demand for coffee.

This unique volume offers an integrated comparative study of class formation in the coffee zones of Latin America as they were incorporated into the world economy. It offers a new theoretical and methodological approach to comparative historical analysis and will serve as a critique and counter to those who stress the homogenizing tendencies of export agriculture. The book will be of interest not only to experts on coffee economies but also to students and scholars of Latin America, labor history, the economics ofdevelopment, and political economy.

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Ten essays, some written for a September 1988 conference in Bogota and Sasaima, Columbia, and the rest in response to it. The broad and comparative treatment examines such topics as class formation in a smallholder coffee economy, the labor system and collective action in Sao Paulo, the 1932 El Salvador rebellion, the transition to capitalism in Guatemala, and coffee consumption in the US 1830-1930. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)