Genetically modified food is at the heart of a new global conflict over how to govern risky technologies in an era of globalization. This timely collection brings together experts from the fields of IR, environmental studies, trade and law to examine the sources of international friction and to explore the prospects for international co-operation.

PHILIPP AERNI Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute, Centre for Comparative and International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, SwitzerlandBAS ARTS Professor, Forest and Nature Conversation Policy Group, Wageningen University, The NetherlandsTHOMAS BERNAUER Professor of Political Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, SwitzerlandJENNIFER CLAPP CIGI Chair in International Governance and Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, CanadaKATHRYN HOCHSTETLER Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico, USAGRANT E. ISAAC Dean of the College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan, CanadaWILLIAM A. KERR Van Vliet Professor of International Trade, University of Saskatchewan and Senior Associate of the Estey Centre for Law and Economics in International Trade, CanadaKELLY L. KOLLMAN Lecturer, Politics Department, University of Glasgow, UKLES LEVIDOW Senior Research Fellow, Open University, UKSANDRA MACK Stakeholder Communications Co-ordinator, State Government Victoria, AustraliaRUTH MACKENZIE Principal Research Fellow and Assistant Director, Centre for the International Courts and Tribunals, Faculty of Laws, University College, London, UKPETER NEWELL Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick, UKASEEM PRAKASH Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Washington-Seattle, USA

Introduction: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food; R.Falkner PART I: STATES, FIRMS AND NGOS IN THE CREATION OF THE CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY International Cooperation against the Hegemon: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; R.Falkner Transnational Corporate Interests in International Biosafety Negotiations; J.Clapp NGO Strategies and Influence in the Biosafety Arena, 1992-2005; B.Arts& S.Mack PART II: GLOBALIZATION, CORPORATE POWER AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE Corporate Power and 'Bounded Autonomy' in the Global Politics of Biotechnology; P.Newell The Political Economy of Food Aid in an Era of Agricultural Biotechnology; J.Clapp PART III: THE TRANSATLANTIC DIVIDE AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACT Biopolitics in the US: An Assessment; K.L.Kollman& A.Prakash The Transatlantic Agbiotech Conflict: A Policy Problem and Opportunity for EU Regulatory Policies; L.Levidow Competition for Public Trust: Causes and Consequences of Extending the Transatlantic Biotech Conflict to Developing Countries; T.Bernauer& P.Aerni PART IV: GMO POLITICS OF GM FOOD IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD The Multi-level Governance of GMOs in Mercosur; K.Hochstetler Internationalising Biotechnology Policy in China; R.Falkner PART V: BIOTECHNOLOGY REGULATION, THE WTO AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW The Biosafety Protocol and the WTO: Concert or Conflict?; G.E.Isaac& W.A.Kerr The Cartagena Protocol and the Development of International Environmental Law; R.Mackenzie References Index