Risk Regulation, Science, and Interests in Transatlantic Trade Conflicts

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.

Autorentext

David J Hornsby is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published in both the biological and social sciences and maintains research interests in trade politics, the politics of risk regulation, middle power cooperation, and large class pedagogy.

Inhalt

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 Conflict 9. Conclusions: Lessons for Trade Conflict