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Governance in the global economy is a topic of enormous importance. Despite the triumph of free trade, many actors still try to protect important sectors of society from the potentially destructive effects of unfettered free markets, and rules remain indispensable in settling disputes among states over trade, investments, and copyrights. This book is particularly significant because of its conceptual clarity and broad scope. Focusing on the transatlantic area as the engine of the world economy, the editors assess three different conceptual models offered by scholars: the classic state-centered approach, the transgovernmental approach, and the transnational system of private actors in an emerging global society. After a series of excellent case studies on trade and competition policies, food safety, business and labor dialogues, and civil-society initiatives, the editors conclude that "the U.S. executive and the European Commission have been and remain the dominant actors in transatlantic governance." Among all these networks, business remains the most successful. At a time when many essay collections are loosely shaped, unoriginal, or jargon-ridden, this one is a model of research and analysis.

--Foreign Affairs

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I: Introduction
Chapter 3 Transatlantic Governance in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
Part 4 Part II: Intergovernmental Relations: A Two Level Game?
Chapter 5 Get Away from Me Closer, You're Near Me Too Far: Europe and America after the Uruguay Round
Chapter 6 Dispute Prevention and Dispute Settlement in the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Partnership
Chapter 7 The Blurring of the Intergovernmental: Public-Private Partnerships behind U.S. and EU Trade Disputes
Part 8 Part III: Transgovernmental Relations: A New World Order?
Chapter 9 Transatlantic Competition Relations
Chapter 10 The Challenge of Reconciling Regulatory Differences: Food Safety and Genetically Modified Organisms in the Transatlantic Relationship
Chapter 11 Mutual Recognition and Standard-Setting: Public and Private Strategies for Governing Markets
Part 12 Part IV: Transnational Relations: A Transatlantic Civil Society?
Chapter 13 The Transatlantic Business Dialogue: Transforming the New Transatlantic Agenda
Chapter 14 The Transatlantic Labor Dialogue: Minimal Action in a Weak Structure
Chapter 15 Transnational Civil Society Dialogues
Part 16 Part V: Conclusion
Chapter 17 Who Governs?
Chapter 18 References
Chapter 19 Index

Product details

Published 30 May 2002
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 366
ISBN 9798216318262
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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