0 GMO-free Regions in Europe: An Analysis of Diffusion Patterns Tosun, Jale and Susumu Shikano (2015). GMO-free Regions in Europe: An Analysis of Diffusion Patterns. Journal of Risk Research, forthcoming. Jale Tosun Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany Bergheimer Straße 58, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany, Phone: +49/(0)6221-54-3726, Fax: +49/(0)6221-54-2896, jale.tosun@ipw.uni-heidelberg.de Susumu Shikano Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Germany Universitätsstraße 10, 78464 Konstanz, Germany, Phone: +49/(0)7531-88-3679, Fax: +49/(0)7531-88-4200, susumu.shikano@uni-konstanz.de We acknowledge research assistance from Simon Schaub and language editing by James Ferrell. We are grateful for the comments by the organizers and participants of the Panel “Politics of Scale and Conflicting Values in Food Governance” at the ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, 4-7 September 2013. Finally, we thank one anonymous referee for many helpful suggestions.