Food Trade and Foreign Policy : : India, the Soviet Union, and the United States / / Robert L. Paarlberg.
When U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz announced in 1974 that "food is a weapon," he voiced a growing national belief in the political power of food resources. President Carter's 1980 decision to embargo grain sales to the Soviet Union appeared at first to confirm this popula...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Food Power Presumption
- 2. India: Domestic Sources of Grain Trade Policy
- 3. The Soviet Union: Retreat from Food Power
- 4. The United States: Food Power Forgone
- 5. Testing Food Power: U.S. Food Aid to India 1965-1967
- 6. Testing Food Power: Embargo on U.S. Grain to the Soviet Union 1980-1981
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index