{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Political Science","slug":"new-books-in-political-science-408770","podcast_index_feed_id":408770,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/6sq2TaYn","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7743b695-b4cd-4c21-acde-c1a69915e314/c3014373-19d9-4555-a6a8-e5b8e97c934c/3000x3000/af9ef2afee05125bb265ca99804e6c8a.png?aid=rss_feed","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":600,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science","last_synced_at":"2026-10-02T08:23:11.868223+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-political-science-408770"},"episode":{"title":"Matias E. Margulis, \"Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security\" (Stanford UP, 2023)","slug":"matias-e-margulis-shadow-negotiators-how-un-organizations-shape-the-rules-of-world-trade-for-food-security-stanford-up-2023","published_at":"2026-08-15T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-political-science-408770/matias-e-margulis-shadow-negotiators-how-un-organizations-shape-the-rules-of-world-trade-for-food-security-stanford-up-2023","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-political-science-408770","url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","audio_url":"https://injector.simplecastaudio.com/7743b695-b4cd-4c21-acde-c1a69915e314/episodes/16683014-f95e-40f0-b45f-ec5f0fd7d519/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=7743b695-b4cd-4c21-acde-c1a69915e314&awEpisodeId=16683014-f95e-40f0-b45f-ec5f0fd7d519&feed=6sq2TaYn","summary":"Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security (Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Matias E. Margulis is the first book to demonstrate that United Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence the discourse, agenda, and outcomes of international trade lawmaking at the World Trade Organization (WTO). While UN organizations lack a seat at the bargaining table at the WTO, Dr. Margulis argues that these organizations have acted as \"shadow negotiators\" engaged in political actions intended to alter the trajectory and results of multilateral trade negotiations. He draws on analysis of one of the most contested issues in global trade politics, agricultural trade liberalization, to demonstrate interventions by four different UN organizations—the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (SRRTF). By identifying several novel intervention strategies used by UN actors to shape the rules of global trade, this book shows that UN organizations chose to intervene in trade lawmaking not out of competition with the WTO or ideological resistance to trade liberalization, but out of concerns that specific trade rules could have negative consequences for world food security—an outcome these organizations viewed as undermining their social purpose to reduce world hunger and protect the human right to food. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda’s interviews on Ne…","meta_description":"Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security (Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Matias E. 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