Understanding Mega-Free Trade Agreements : the Political and Economic Governance of New Cross-Regionalism / Jean-Baptiste Velut.
"The rise of cross-regional trade agreements is a defining trend of the current international trade system as shown by the signing of the Transpacific Partnership in 2015, the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the USA and the EU as well as the Re...
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2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction The political and economic governance of new cross-regionalism; A brief history of regionalism; The complex governance of new cross-regionalism; Multiple scales, blurred boundaries; Behind the border, new stakeholders; Notes; References; Part I The geostrategic stakes of new cross-regionalism; 1 From APEC to the Trans-Pacific Partnership: The United States, Asia and interconnection agreements.
- The United States: an interface between Asia and Europe?Asia, the new hub of regionalism; The United States, an Asia-Pacific nation; A heterogeneous partnership; Trade-related arguments; An agreement for the future; TPP and cross-regionalism; Surpassing NAFTA; The CETA as a precedent; TPP negotiations; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 Defining an "economic NATO": The implications of TTIP for transatlantic security and defence ; Trade and security; What would an "economic NATO" look like?; TTIP and Transatlantic security; Conclusion; Notes; References.
- 3 The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Assessing the role of a mega free trade agreement in US diplomacy The TPP: fourth generation FTA or pawn in the institutional US-China "Kriegspiel"?; The TPP: a "fourth generation" FTA; The TPP: a product of an institutional US-China "Kriegspiel"; Economic interdependence and the quest for strategic stability; The perils of interdependence; What role for economic interdependencies in US-China strategic stability?; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part II Cross-regional ftas as international regulatory regimes.
- 4 Regulatory networks versus trade negotiations: Addressing transatlantic coordination failure in financial regulation The decline of IGO-centred global governance; Minilateralism; Soft law; Transatlantic coordination failure in OTC derivatives regulation; TTIP to the rescue; Reasons for coordination failure; Conclusion; References; 5 Shifting governance: TTIP and the public services debate ; Introduction; Definitional issues; Services and the blurring of notions of public and private; Taking account of services trade and investment and the growing importance of trading in public services.
- The TTIP: an opportunity to extend trade in services on a massive scale?The TTIP and barriers to trade in services; Limits to the liberalisation of public services in TTIP (I): conceptualising liberalisation in trade agreements; Limits to the liberalisation of public services in TTIP (II); Conflicting international and domestic interests; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 The Trans-Pacific Partnership: The entertainment triad ; Intellectual property; An investor-state dispute resolution mechanism; World market access to culture by electronic means.