This book reveals how conflicting worldviews are at the root of public controversies on policy
and trade issues. It highlights the particularly controversial disputes at the level of the
World Trade Organization in the case of regulating beef-hormones and GMOs aiming to show how
negotiators of international agreements members of dispute settlement bodies and policy
makers in general could have recourse to concepts of other disciplines such as epistemology and
philosophy in order to address deadlocked legal disputes. Ultimately the book is a manifesto
for independent and critical research.
