Mark A. Pollack is Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, where he teaches classes in international relations and European Union politics. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1995-2004) and was Senior Research Fellow in the transatlantic relations program at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2000-2002). His research agenda focuses on the role of international institutions in the regional and global governance, with specific projects examining the delegation of powers to the supranational organizations in the European Union, the creation of new mechanisms for the governance of the transatlantic relationship, the global governance of genetically modified organisms, and the "mainstreaming" of gender issues in international organizations.

Professor Gregory Shaffer is Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He was previously Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was also Director of the University's European Union Center and Co-Director and Senior Fellow of its Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the inaugural Wing-Tat Lee Chair of International Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Professor Shaffer is a recipient of two US National Science Foundation Law and Social Science grants for his work on the World Trade Organization, a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar for his study of transatlantic regulatory conflict and cooperation, and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre on Trade and Sustainable Development for its work on WTO dispute settlement and developing countries.

"A masterful analysis of the causes and consequences of the failure of transatlantic cooperation as it related to agricultural biotechnology...When Cooperation Fails makes a range of contributions that should put it at the center of a number of research agendas in international relations and law."--EUSA Review

"When Cooperation Fails is a deeply informed, methodologically diverse and richly convincing analysis of the causes and consequences of the EU-US conflict over GMO regulation. Much more than a case study, it provides abundant insights about domestic and international environmental law, including the limits of international institutions in dealing with entrenched differences in risk regulatory policies."--Richard Stewart, University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

"This book presents an original and an exhaustively researched analysis of one of the difficult and intractable disputes in the transatlantic relationship. It skillfully explores the complex interaction between the national and international dimensions of the GMO dispute in a way that clearly illuminates both the potential and limitations of international regulatory cooperation. Shaffer and Pollack have made a major contribution to our understanding of the legal and political dynamics of regulatory-related trade disputes."--David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley

"When Corporation Fails is a significant, original contribution regarding the transatlantic dispute over the regulation of genetically modified foods and crops. It is an outstanding and highly informative study of the interaction of four global regulatory regimes and the domestic legal and political responses to them. Pollack and Shaffer provide a model for interdisciplinary collaboration."--Sabino Cassese, Judge, Italian Constitutional Court; Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa

"Methodologically, Pollack and Shaffer--a polticial scientist and a legal scholar, respectively--blend together their separate fields of expertise to generate rich, interdisciplinary narratives, such as capture, hard law/soft law interaction, and comparative law and politics." --Sungjoon Cho, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology The American Journal of International Law