Risk Regulation, Science, and Interests in Transatlantic Trade Conflicts [electronic resource] /
Hornsby, D.author.
When regions like Canada, the US and the EU have disagreed over the legitimacy of risk perceptions they have placed science at the centre of international trade conflict. By looking across cases disputed and informally resolved, David Hornsby offers to deepen understanding of factors involved in risk based trade conflict.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: The Intersection of Risk and Trade; 2 Science in the Regulation of Risk: A Transatlantic Divide?; Part I: Informal Trade Conflict; 3 Mad Cows and Transatlantic Trade Conflict; 4 Resolving Differences over Stinky Cheese and Bothersome Beetles; Part II: Formal Trade Conflict; 5 The Dispute over Hormonal Cattle: The Lead up to EC-Hormones; 6 Fearing 'Frankenfoods': Emergence of EC-Biotech; 7 Disputing Chlorinated Chickens: The Politics Underpinning EC-Poultry; Part III: The Relevance of Science
8 Science and the Politics of Transatlantic Trade Conflict9 Conclusions: Lessons for Trade Conflict; Notes; Bibliography; Index
When regions like Canada, the US and the EU have disagreed over the legitimacy of risk perceptions they have placed science at the centre of international trade conflict. By looking across cases disputed and informally resolved, David Hornsby offers to deepen understanding of factors involved in risk based trade conflict.
Political economy.
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International economics.
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Comparative politics.
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