The institutional structure of transatlantic regulatory cooperation

There is an extensive academic literature on the history and institutional relationship between the European Union and the United States. Some of the most prominent studies were done by Mark Pollack (2005; 2003b), Mark Pollack and Gregory Shaffer (2009; 2001a; 2001b), Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (2003), and Bart Kerremans (1999). In 2005 Rebeccas Steffenson published her dissertation on “Managing EU-U.S. relations. Actors, institutions and the new transatlantic agenda,” which should become a reference guide for everyone interested in EUU. S. institutional relations.68