Introduction: The Centrality of Regulation to Trade Politics -- How Regulations Became the Crux of Trade Politics -- Competitiveness and Death: Explaining the Negotiations over Regulatory Trade Barriers -- Automobiles and Regulatory Regionalism in North America and Europe -- Mad-Cow Regulations...

This book evaluates the evolution of regulatory policy in advanced countries and discusses how policy changes in one country can affect other nations in a globalized world. Separated in two parts, the first half of the book focuses on policy in developed countries and regulatory diffusion from...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the negotiation and enforcement of formal rules governing international trade. Why do countries choose to adjudicate their trade disputes in the WTO rather than settling their differences on their own? In Why Adjudicate?, Christina Davis investigates...