[Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network - new book: Governing the Transatlantic Conflict

[Navdeep Mathur]

> New book published by Routledge, July 2006  

see here for full flyer 

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tps/GovTransConflict_JMLL.pdf
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> Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology
> Joseph Murphy and Les Levidow
>
> Delays in approving genetically modified crops and foods in the 
> European Union have led to a high profile trade conflict with the 
> United States. This book analyses the EU-US conflict as a case 
> study to explore the governance of new technologies.
>
> The transatlantic conflict over GM crops and food has been widely 
> attributed to regulatory differences that divide the EU and the 
> US.  Going beyond common stereotypes of these differences and their 
> origins, this book analyses the conflict through contending 
> coalitions of policy actors operating across the Atlantic. 
> Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural 
> Biotechnology focuses on interactions between the EU and the US, 
> rather than on EU-US comparisons. Drawing on original research and 
> interviews with key policy actors, the book shows how EU-US efforts 
> to harmonise regulations for agricultural biotechnology created the 
> context in which activists could generate a backlash against the 
> technology. In this new context regulations were shaped along 
> different lines. Joseph Murphy and Les Levidow provide new insights 
> by elaborating critical perspectives on global governance, issue-
> framing, standard-setting and regulatory science.
>
> This accessible book will appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate 
> students, academics and policy-makers working on a wide range of 
> issues covered by political science, policy studies, international 
> relations, economics, geography, business management, environmental 
> and development studies, science and technology studies.


http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tps/GovTransConflict_JMLL.pdf