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This work offers a radical reformulation of the pluralist position in 'English school' theory, providing an account of world politics that is normatively progressive and rooted in the significance of multiple community membership to human lives.

Saving pluralism from itself? -- Beyond moral scepticism, statism, and conservatism : recasting pluralist approaches to international society -- Rethinking the society of sovereign states as a pluralist edifice : community, plurality, and globalization -- Institutions, plurality, and resistance -- World politics and the pluralism of the future, rather than the past -- Pluralism saved?

1. Commodity supply shocks -- 2. Supply chain distortions : intervention, subsidies, protection -- 3. Role of the private sector, price, competition, and government -- 4. Government intervention by importing countries -- 5. The rise and fall of commingled commodity handling -- 6. Government intervention failures in exporting countries -- 7. Hoarding -- 8. Corruption in the food chain -- 9. Food aid problems -- 10. Importance of 'trade' markets and merchants -- 11. Post-deregulation issues -- 12. Food supply chain efficiency.

Why have food crises seemingly become more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different issues and distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains, oilseeds, pulses and sugar. It outlines the underlying changes that are currently occurring, which will have an influence on the direction of future food supply chains, and provides some solutions to current food security problems.

"The body demands its rights" : the workers' nudist movement -- Social hiking : the Naturfreunde movement -- The roots of organized youth hiking : Wandervögel, youth cultivators, and moral panic, 1900-1915 -- Between authority and freedom : youth cultivation through hiking, 1916-1928 -- The assault on youth hiking, 1929-1940 -- From preserving to planning nature : the bourgeois conservationists -- Conclusion : the cultural appropriation of nature from the Kaiserreich to the Third Reich

This book develops a conceptual model of legitimacy as a value-judgement in international relations in contrast to Weberian and legal approaches. The model is based on the interaction of the states-systemic value of order with a liberal ideal of the state and a free-market, liberal international economy. Whilst formulated as a principally Western model, the analysis of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia and the international response points towards a wider applicability as well as confirming the value of the concept as an analytical tool