The 1937 International Sugar Agreement: Neo-Colonial Cuba and Economic Aspects of the League of Nations

Leiden Journal of International Law 89, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2011

24 Pages Posted: 5 Dec 2011 Last revised: 11 May 2014

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Michael Fakhri

University of Oregon - School of Law

Date Written: December 5, 2011

Abstract

To many in the West, the League of Nations was to establish political peace between nations. To the Cuban sugar-producing elite of the 1920s and 1930s, however, the League was an important socioeconomic institution used to augment many of Cuba’s first modern state institutions. This article explores how and why Cuban delegates were the principals behind the 1937 International Sugar Agreement – one of the League’s few operational economic treaties. This treaty sheds light onto how actors from the so-called industrial core and agricultural periphery used international law, institutions, and practice to negotiate and renegotiate their relationship with each other.

Keywords: International trade law, League of Nations, Cuba, periphery, sugar

JEL Classification: B15, B25, K33, O19, N56, Q17

Suggested Citation

Fakhri, Michael, The 1937 International Sugar Agreement: Neo-Colonial Cuba and Economic Aspects of the League of Nations (December 5, 2011). Leiden Journal of International Law 89, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1968358

Michael Fakhri (Contact Author)

University of Oregon - School of Law ( email )

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