Transatlantic Economic Disputes The EU, the US, and the WTO

Recent transatlantic relations have been plagued by a seemingly endless series of disputes over trade and other economic and political interests. Some of these disputes have been amongst the most prominent of the WTO era: the Bananas Case , the Beef Hormones Case and over the application of the Helms-Burton Act. This book analyzes the source of transatlantic disputes, the means employed to prevent and settle such disputes both bilaterally and through the dispute settlement mechanism of the of the WTO, and to identify promising areas for reform.

Mark A. Pollack is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he teaches classes in international relations and comparative European politics. He received his B.A. in political science from Rutgers University in 1988, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995, and he served for two years as Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann is Professor of International and European Law at the European University Institute, Florence.