The attempted merger between General Electric and Honeywell A case study of transatlantic conflict March 2005 Jeremy Grant (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva) and Professor Damien J. Neven (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva) Financial support from the TMR program on « Competition Policy in international markets » is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would also like to thank all those participants in GE/Honeywell who generously gave of their time to discuss