European Competition Policy and Globalization

Chad Damro is Senior Lecturer of Politics and International Relations and Co-Director of the Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he teaches honours and post-graduate courses on EU external relations. His research focuses on international and domestic sources of International Relations and the interaction of material, institutional and ideational factors in EU external relations. Terrence R. Guay is Clinical Professor of International Business at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University, USA, where he teaches undergraduate and MBA international business courses. His research focuses on the competition between governments, international organizations, NGOs, and other non-state actors to shape business behavior and the international business environment, with an emphasis on Europe.

1. Introduction: Globalization and Public Policy
2. Development of European Competition Policy
3. EU Merger Review
4. EU and Anticompetitive Practices
5. State Aids
6. The EU and Global Competition Policy
7. Competition Policy in the 21st Century