Overview

"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 and resulting in a bitterly contested legal battle before the World Trade Organization. Professors Pollack and Shaffer investigate the obstacles to reconciling regulatory differences among nations through international cooperation, using the lens of the GMO dispute. The book addresses the dynamic interactions of domestic law and politics, transnational networks, international regimes, and global markets, through a theoretically grounded and empirically comprehensive analysis of the governance of GM foods and crops. They demonstrate that the deeply politicized, entrenched and path-dependent nature of the regulation of GMOs in the US and the EU has fundamentally shaped negotiations and decision-making at the international level, limiting the prospects for deliberation and providing incentives for both sides to engage in hard bargaining and to ""shop"" for favorable international forums. They then assess the impacts, and the limits, of international pressures on domestic US and European law, politics and business practice, which have remained strikingly resistant to change. International cooperation in areas like GMO regulation, the authors conclude, must overcome multiple obstacles, legal and political, domestic and international. Any effective response to this persistent dispute, they argue, must recognize both the obstacles to successful cooperation, and the options that remain for each side when cooperation fails."

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Author:   Mark A. Pollack (Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University) ,  Gregory C. Shaffer (Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.815kg
ISBN:  

9780199237289

ISBN 10:   019923728
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   21 May 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Tables Acronyms Acknowledgements 1: Introduction and Overview: Biotechnology, Risk Regulation, and the Failure of Cooperation 2: The Domestic Sources of the Conflict: Why the US and EU Biotech Regulatory Regimes Differ 3: The Promise and Failure of Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation through Networks 4: Deliberation or Bargaining? Distributive Conflict and the Fragmented International Regime Complex 5: WTO Dispute Settlement Meets GMOs: Who Decides? 6: US and EU Policies Since 2000: Change, Continuity and (Lack of) Convergence 7: Conclusions: The Lessons of Transatlantic Conflict, Developing Countries and the Future of Agricultural Biotechnology References Index

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When Cooperation Fails is a deeply informed, methodologically diverse and richly convincing analysis of the causes and consequences of the EU-US conflict over GMO regulation. Much more than a case study, it provides abundant insights about domestic and international environmental law, including the limits of international institutions in dealing with entrenched differences in risk regulatory policies. Richard Stewart, University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law, New York University School of Law When Cooperation Fails is a significant, original contribution regarding the transatlantic dispute over the regulation of genetically modified foods and crops. It is an outstanding and highly informative study of the interaction of four global regulatory regimes and the domestic legal and political responses to them. Pollack and Shaffer provide a model for interdisciplinary collaboration. Sabino Cassese, Judge, Italian Constitutional Court; Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa This book presents an original and an exhaustively researched analysis of one of the difficult and intractable disputes in the transatlantic relationship. It skillfully explores the complex interaction between the national and international dimensions of the GMO dispute in a way that clearly illuminates both the potential and limitations of international regulatory cooperation. Shaffer and Pollack have made a major contribution to our understanding of the legal and political dynamics of regulatory-related trade disputes. David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley

Author Information

"Mark A. Pollack is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, where he teaches classes in international relations and European Union politics. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1995-2004) and was Senior Research Fellow in the transatlantic relations program at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2000-2002). His research agenda focuses on the role of international institutions in the regional and global governance, with specific projects examining the delegation of powers to the supranational organizations in the European Union, the creation of new mechanisms for the governance of the transatlantic relationship, the global governance of genetically modified organisms, and the ""mainstreaming "" of gender issues in international organizations. Professor Gregory Shaffer is Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He was previously Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was also Director of the University's European Union Center and Co-Director and Senior Fellow of its Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the inaugural Wing-Tat Lee Chair of International Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Professor Shaffer is a recipient of two US National Science Foundation Law and Social Science grants for his work on the World Trade Organization, a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar for his study of transatlantic regulatory conflict and cooperation, and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre on Trade and Sustainable Development for its work on WTO dispute settlement and developing countries."

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