Biopolitics and Genetically Modified Organisms in the European Union and the US: Race to the Bottom or Convergence to the Top?
Aseem Prakash
Monday, 11 Nov 2002 at 4:00 pm – 302 Catt Hall
Aseem Prakash is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington where he works in areas of environmental policy, globalization, private governance, and business strategy. He is the author of Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism . Professor Prakash has published over twenty papers in areas of business strategy, regulation, and globalization in journals such as World Politics, Policy Sciences, Review of International Political Economy, Global Governance, Review of International Studies, Business & Society, and World Economy. In 1999 he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the subject of Globalization and Economic Governance.
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