Governing the Global Land Grab: Multipolarity, Ideas, and Complexity in Transnational Governance
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First Statement of Responsibility
/ Matias E. Margulis
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
; Tony Porter
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Since 2008, a series of new regulatory initiatives have emerged to address largescale land grabs. These initiatives are occurring simultaneously at multiple levels of social organization instead of a single, overarching institutional site. A significant portion of this activity is taking place at the transnational level. We suggest that transnational land governance is indicative of emerging shifts in the practice of governance of global affairs. We analyze such shifts by asking two related questions: what does land grabbing tell us about developments in transnational governance, particularly with regard to North–South relations, and what do these developments in transnational governance mean for regulating land grabbing?