Transatlantic Divide Research Articles

The Transatlantic Divide on Verticals—The Underlying Reasons and the Way Forward

While the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sylvania put an end to the debate on the treatment of vertical territorial restraints under the U.S. antitrust rules forty years ago, the debate continues in the EU. EU applies a broad presumption that such restrictions are anticompetitive. The EU schism on verticals is becoming more and more relevant for multinationals, as the European Commission has recently started a number of investigations targeting restrictions in online distribution. This article shows that the EU policy on vertical restraints is driven predominantly by the perceived need to use the competition rules to further the integration of the EU internal market. A more teleological interpretation of that objective would allow for a more flexible, effects-based analysis of vertical agreements under the EU competition rules.

Cultural Politics and the Transatlantic Divide over GMOs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. x + 256 pages. ISBN 9780230284579, $105.00 hardcover. Hannes R. Stephan. 2015.

Review of Policy ResearchVolume 34, Issue 1 p. 138-140 Book Review Cultural Politics and the Transatlantic Divide over GMOs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. x + 256 pages. ISBN 9780230284579, $105.00 hardcover. Hannes R. Stephan. 2015. Brandiff R. Caron, Brandiff R. Caron Concordia UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Brandiff R. Caron, Brandiff R. Caron Concordia UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 07 November 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12222Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume34, Issue1Special Issue: Accountability, Policy and Environmental GovernanceJanuary 2017Pages 138-140 RelatedInformation

Bridging the Transatlantic Divide? The United States, the European Union, and the Protection of Privacy Across Borders

The revelations of widespread surveillance by the US National Security Agency has produced outrage, notably in the EU and supposedly deepened the transatlantic cleavage in matters of privacy and national security. The aim of this paper is to qualify this understanding. As we maintain, both the US and the EU regimes of data protection present strengths. Yet, both of them reveal also weaknesses in the field of national security. In particular, in both regimes privacy protections apply mainly territorially, to the benefit of residents – but few if any legal limits constrain the capacity of intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance overseas, against non-citizens. While the discrimination between citizens and aliens is a constant in the fight against terrorism, we claim that in the context of transatlantic relations there are strong legal and policy arguments why the EU and the US should set up a transnational compact restricting the powers of their own intelligence agencies to spy on each other’s citizens. The struggle against terrorism has turned global. The adoption of a transatlantic privacy agreement may represent the mechanism to secure the protection of constitutional values against circumvention by intelligence agencies cooperating across borders.“[T]he legal safeguards that restrict surveillance against U.S. persons without a warrant do not apply to foreign persons overseas. This is not unique to America; few, if any, spy agencies around the world constrain their activities beyond their own borders.” Barack Obama, speech, 17 January 2014.

Divergent Views on the Charter Norms on the Use of Force—A Transatlantic Divide?

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The Transatlantic Divide: How Divisional and Continuing Patent Application Filing Practice Differs Between the USA and Europe

In this article we compare patent application 'fragmentation' strategies in the USA and Europe. Recent changes in European law restricting the timeframe in which divisional applications may be filed now make adopting a US-style approach in Europe virtually impossible. Life-science originator companies must therefore use foresight to direct the filing of appropriate divisional applications to meet the narrowed window of opportunity in Europe.

Routledge handbook of international political economy (IPE): IPE as a global conversation

Introduction: IPE as a Global Conversation Mark Blyth Section 1: North American IPE 1. The Multiple Traditions of American IPE Benjamin J. Cohen 2. Realist Political Economy: Traditional Themes and Contemporary Challenges Jonathan Kirshner 3. Thinking Rationally about Hierarchy and Global Governance Alexander Cooley 4. Constructivism as an Approach to International Political Economy Rawi Abdelal 5. Of Margins, Traditions and Engagements: A Brief Disciplinary History of IPE in Canada Randall Germain Section 2: British IPE 6. Lineages of a British International Political Economy Ben Rosamond and Ben Clift 7. Empiricism and Objectivity: Reflexive Theory Construction in a Complex World Ronen Palan and Angus Cameron 8. Power-Knowledge Estranged: From Susan Strange to Post-structuralism in British IPE Paul Langley 9. Bridging the Transatlantic Divide? Toward a Structurational Approach to International Political Economy Philip G. Cerny Section 3: IPE in Asia 10. Reading Hobbes in Beijing: Great Power Politics and the Challenge of the Peaceful Ascent Giovanni Arrighi 11. States and Markets, States Versus Markets: The Developmental State Debate as the Distinctive East Asian Contribution to International Political Economy Walden Bello 12. The Rise of East-Asia: An Emerging Challenge to the Study of International Political Economy Henry Yeung 13. Neither Asia nor America: IPE in Australia Jason Sharman Section 4: IPE Elswhere - Exemptions, Exclusions, and Extensions 14. Why IPE is UNderdeveloped in Europe: A Case Study of France Nicolas Jabko 15. Why Did the Latin American Critical Tradition in the Social Sciences Become Practically Extinct? Gabriel Palma 16. What Do Sociologists Bring to International Political Economy John Campbell 17. Economic History and the International Political Economy Michael J. Oliver 18. Everyday International Political Economy Leonard Seabrooke and John Hobson

Implementation of LaGrand and Avena in Germany and the United States: Exploring a Transatlantic Divide in Search of a Uniform Interpretation of Consular Rights

Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations identifies consular information as an individual right that foreign nationals possess when arrested or detained abroad. The difficulties encountered by these persons, however, when they seek to vindicate that right before domestic courts has become dramatically visible in the cases of foreigners on death row in the United States. In recent years, three such cases have reached the International Court of Justice (ICJ), two of which were fully litigated. In LaGrand and Avena, the ICJ ordered review and reconsideration where Article 36 rights had been violated and the legal process was already exhausted. Unfortunately, the implementation of these judgments in the United States left much to be desired. The majority opinion in the recent Supreme Court decision in Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, with its abrasive treatment of the ICJ, forms an unfortunate culmination point of this trend. On the other side of the Atlantic, the German Bundesverfassungsgericht fortunately steered a very different course. Contrary to their US counterparts, the German judges had no difficulty in subordinating their jurisprudence to the decision of a competent international court. Thus, the German judges were prepared, under certain circumstances, to afford ICJ decisions a strong guiding force, even where Germany was not a party to the respective cases. The present article compares the striking differences of ‘consideration’ afforded to the ICJ's jurisprudence on Article 36 by the Supreme Court of the United States and the Bundesverfassungsgericht respectively.

The Transatlantic Divide over Democracy Promotion

The Transatlantic Divide over Democracy Promotion

The Time-Series Behavior of House Prices: A Transatlantic Divide?

At first sight, data on real house prices in the U.S.A. and the U.K. appear to suggest that behavior has differed over time in the two countries at both the national and subnational levels. Furthermore, empirical estimates of the main house price elasticities in the literature appear to differ. In this paper, we ask whether the differences are really as great as previous work suggests. We argue that, by adopting a common methodological framework, the same theory can explain behavior in both countries. Also, there are important similarities in subnational house price trends that are not immediately evident from inspection of the data.

Mappings: feminism and the cultural geographies of encounter

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Locational Feminism3Pt. IFeminism/Multiculturalism15Ch. 1Beyond Gender: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism17Ch. 2Beyond White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse36Ch. 3Beyond Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands67Pt. IIFeminism/Globalism105Ch. 4Geopolitical Literacy: Internationalizing Feminism at Home - The Case of Virginia Woolf107Ch. 5Telling Contacts: Intercultural Encounters and Narrative Poetics in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology132Ch. 6Routes/Roots: Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity151Pt. IIIFeminism/Poststructuralism179Ch. 7Negotiating the Transatlantic Divide: Feminism after Poststructuralism181Ch. 8Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire199Ch. 9Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Feminist Theory and Poetic Practice228Notes243References281Index303