Understanding Mega Free Trade Agreements
The rise of cross-regional trade agreements is a defining trend of the current international trade system as shown by the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2015, the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the USA and the EU as well as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) between countries in Asia and Oceania. These differ from previous agreements in their economic significance and large geographic scale, and the wide scope of trade-related issues.
The current rise of nationalist and isolationist ideologies across Europe and the USA has raised questions on the future of cross-regional trade deals and made the need to understand their implications for economic and political governance ever more urgent. Two main forms of governance that are central to this volume are the democratic tensions over new generation trade deals on the one hand, and their geopolitical ramifications on the other, which have come into collision to herald the advent of a highly uncertain period of world politics. Many of the questions tackled in this volume, surrounding the democratic governance of trade agreements whether long-held debates on the inclusion of workers voices, controversies on intrusive behind the border provisions undermining national sovereignty and local autonomy or new questions on digital rights are crucial to understand the ebbing popular support for far-reaching trade agreements.
This book will be a useful learning tool for students and scholars in a wide range of fields, including Globalisation, Global Governance, International Political Economy, International Trade and Investment and International Law, and should also be of interest to EU trade negotiators, international policymakers and business associations.
Jean-Baptiste Velut is Associate Professor in American Studies at Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
Louise Dalingwater is Associate Professor in British Studies at Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
Vanessa Boullet is Associate Professor in Irish Studies at the University of Lorraine.
Valrie Peyronel is Professor of British and Irish Studies at Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.
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Understanding Mega Free Trade Agreements
The Political and Economic Governance of New Cross-Regionalism
Edited by Jean-Baptiste Velut, Louise Dalingwater, Vanessa Boullet & Valrie Peyronel
Understanding Mega Free Trade Agreements
The Political and Economic Governance of New Cross-Regionalism
Edited by Jean-Baptiste Velut, Louise Dalingwater, Vanessa Boullet and Valrie Peyronel
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Names: Velut, Jean-Baptiste, editor.
Title: Understanding mega-free trade agreements: the political and economic governance of new cross-regionalism / edited by Jean-Baptiste Velut, [and three others].
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. |
Series: The international political economy of new regionalisms series; 1146 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017011200 | ISBN 9781138709126 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315200989 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Commercial policy. | Commercial treaties. | Free trade. | Regionalism.
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Contents
Jean-Baptiste Velut
Christian Deblock
Christopher Griffin
Guillaume de Roug
Peter Knaack
Louise Dalingwater
Guy-Philippe Wells
Iza Lejrraga
Soo Yeon Kim and Tobias Hofmann
Vanessa Boullet
Jonas Aissi and Rafael Peels
Susan Ariel Aaronson
Jean-Baptiste Velut and Louise Dalingwater
Editors
Jean-Baptiste Velut is Associate Professor of American Studies at Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. His research focuses on statemarket relations, trade policy and globalization debates in the United States. His recent publications include The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism, co-edited with L. Cossu-Beaumont and J. H. Coste (Routledge, 2016) and What Role for Civil Society in Cross-Regional Mega-Deals? published in
