Cooperating on Competition in Transatlantic Economic Relations : The Politics of Dispute Prevention

In this in-depth study, Damro explains the creation of a formal cooperative framework for preventing disputes in transatlantic competition policy. The findings suggest that, while regulators remain constrained by domestic institutions, they play an important role in explaining why the cooperative framework is largely a discretionary one.

CHAD DAMRO is Lecturer in Politics and Co-Director of the MSc in International and European Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was previously an EU Fulbright Scholar in Brussels, Belgium (2000) and Jean Monnet Fellow at the University Institute in Florence, Italy (2002-03). His research focuses on EU-US economic and environmental relations and the EU's role in the international system and he has published in the Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of International Relations, European Foreign Affairs Review, Environmental Politics and Environment and Planning.