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When cooperation fails : the international law and politics of genetically modified foods / Mark A. Pollack, Gregory C. Shaffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollack, Mark A., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetically modified foods--Law and legislation.
- Genetically modified foods.
- Genetically modified foods--Law and legislation--European Union countries.
- Genetically modified foods--Law and legislation--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (456 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The transatlantic dispute over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has brought into conflict the United States and the European Union, two long-time allies and economically interdependent democracies with a long record of successful cooperation. Yet the dispute - pitting a largely acceptant US against an EU deeply suspicious of GMOs - has developed into one of the most bitter and intractable transatlantic and global conflicts, resisting efforts at negotiated resolution andresulting in a bitterly contested legal battle before the World Trade Organization. Professors Pollack and Shaffer invest
- Contents:
- Introduction and overview : biotechnology, risk regulation, and the failure of cooperation
- The domestic sources of the conflict : why the US and EU biotech regulatory regimes differ
- The promise and failure of transatlantic regulatory cooperation through networks
- Deliberation or bargaining? : distributive conflict and the fragmented international regime complex
- WTO dispute settlement meets GMOS : who decides?
- US and EU policies since 2000 : change, continuity and (lack of) convergence
- Conclusions : the lessons of transatlantic conflict, developing countries and the future of agricultural biotechnology.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-425) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-956705-0
- 0-19-156890-2
- 9786612268540
- 1-282-26854-6
- OCLC:
- 435911885
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