This book offers a comprehensive account of the transatlantic regulatory cooperation phenomenon: its causes and political context in a globalizing economy, its theoretical understanding, its relationship to trade and competition, its implications for democracy, and its likely directions in the future.
Foreword,
Richard N. Gardner1. Introduction, George A. Bermann, Matthias Herdegen, Peter L. Lindseth
Part I: Transatlantic regulatory cooperation: the political and legal framework
2. Transatlantic Economic Partnership: Breaking Down the Hidden Barriers, Sir Leon Brittan
3. The United States and Europe: Seeking Common Ground, Amb. David L. Aaron
4. Globalization and the Rule of Law, Jean-Louis Dewost
5. Listening in on the U.S.-EU Legal Dialogue, David R. Andrews
6. The Transatlantic Business Dialogue: The Perspective of the European Chemical Industry, Hans-Ulrich Engel
Part II: Globalization and Transatlantic regulatory cooperation
7. The Locational and Institutional Embeddedness of the Global Economy, Saskia Sassen
8. Global Economic Networks and Global Legal Pluralism, Francis Snyder
Part III: Transatlantic regulatory cooperation: theoretical perspectives
9. International Regulatory Cooperation: A Neo-Institutionalist Approach, Giandomenico Majone
10. The `Demand' for International Regulatory Cooperation: A Public Choice Perspective, Jonathan R. Macey
11. Regulatory Cooperation and Competition: The Search for Virtue, Paul B. Stephan
Part IV: Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation, International Trade and Competition Law
12. Reconciling Transatlantic Regulatory Imperatives with Bilateral Trade, Mauro Pettricione
13. Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation from a Trade Perspective: A Case Study in Accounting Standards, Joel P. Trachtman
14. Competition Law: Linking the World, Eleanor M. Fox
15. Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation in Competition Policy: the Case for `Soft Harmonization' and Multilateralism Over New Bilateral US-EU Institutions, Merit E. Janow
16. Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Exclusive Club or `Open Regionalism'?, Petros C. Mavroidis
Part V: Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation in Selected Sectors
17. Telecommunications and `Cyberspace': Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation and the Constitutionalization of International Law, Klaus W. Grewlich
18. Biotechnology and Regulatory Risk Assessment, Matthias Herdegen
19. Existing Legal and Institutional Mechanisms for Cooperation and Coordination: The Case of Intellectual and Industrial Property, Josef Drexl
20. International Governance for Voluntary Standards: A Game-Theoretic Perspective, Walter Mattli
Part VI: The Interface Between International Regulatory Initiatives and the Domestic Legal Environment
21. US and EU Structures of Governance as Barriers to Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation, Jonathan R. Macey
22. International Regulatory Cooperation and US Federalism, George A. Bermann
23. Implementing Regulatory Cooperation Through Executive Agreements and the Problem of Democratic Accountability, Joel R. Paul
24. Integrating Regulatory Cooperation into the EU System, Gerhard Lohan
25. The Respective Powers of the European Community and the Member States in Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation, Paul Demaret
26. The Implementation of International Regulatory Initiatives in Europe, Reimer von Borries
Part VII: Transatlantic regulatory cooperation, democracy and accountability
27. Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation and the Problem of Democracy, Robert Howse
28. Globalization, Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation and Democratic Values, Ludger Kuhnhardt
29. North Atlantic Cooperation and Democratizing Globalism, Sol Picciotto
30. Agencies on the Loose? Holding Government Networks Accountable, Anne-Marie Slaughter
31. The Challenges of Globally Accessible Process, Peter L. Strauss
Part VIII: The future of regulatory cooperation: strategic directions and institutional implications
32. Regulatory Cooperation and Managed Mutual Recognition: Elements of a Strategic Model, Kalypso Nicolaidis
33. Building the `Transatlantic Economic Partnership': Are New General Institutions Needed?, Wulf-Henning Roth
34. Globalization and Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Proposals for US-EU Initiatives to Further Constitutionalize International Law, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann