Why, we wanted to know, had cooperation repeatedly failed? Why were the US and the EU so implacably opposed? Why couldn't US and EU regulators come to a meeting of the minds in their frequent joint meetings? Why didn't multilateral regimes facilitate cooperation, as regime theorists would have predicted? Could litigation resolve the issue by deciding clearly in favor of one side or the other, or would it backfire, prompting a backlash against both GMOs and the WTO itself? Is there any sign of convergence between the two sides, or is the now decade-old conflict likely to continue and spread to the rest of the world—and if so, how will this affect the dynamics of the conflict? What law and policy lessons, in sum, can we draw? These are the questions that we address in this book.
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