Multilateral rulemaking: Transatlantic struggles around genetically modified food

Globalization and Institutions: Redefining the Rules of the Economic Game

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 220-244

  McNichol, Jason ^a   Bensedrine, Jabril ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33644979948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781950012.00020     Document Type: Chapter

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