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Rule-Makers or Rule-Takers?
Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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2015
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an effort by the United States and the European Union to reposition themselves for a world of diffuse economic power and intensified global competition. It is a next-generation economic negotiation that breaks the mould of traditional trade agreements. At the heart of the ongoing talks is the question whether and in which areas the two major democratic actors in the global economy can address costly frictions generated by their deep commercial integration by aligning rules and other instruments. The aim is to reduce duplication in various ways in areas where levels of regulatory protection are equivalent as well as to foster wide-ranging regulatory cooperation and set a benchmark for high-quality global norms.
In this volume, European and American experts explain the economic context of TTIP and its geopolitical implications, and then explore the challenges and consequences of US-EU negotiations across numerous sensitive areas, ranging from food safety and public procurement to economic and regulatory assessments of technical barriers to trade, automotive, chemicals, energy, services, investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms and regulatory cooperation. Their insights cut through the confusion and tremendous public controversies now swirling around TTIP, and help decision-makers understand how the United States and the European Union can remain rule-makers rather than rule-takers in a globalising world in which their relative influence is waning.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-78348-711-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-78348-712-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
542
Product type
Edited Book
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TABLE OF CONTENTS No access
List of Figures, Tables & Boxes No access
List of Abbreviations No access
About the Contributors No access
Preface No access
1. Rule-makers or rule-takers? An introduction to TTIP No access
2. This time it’s different: Turbo-charging regulatory cooperation No access
3. TTIP’s Hard Core: Technical barriers to trade and standards No access
4. Quantifying Non-Tariff Measures for TTIP No access
5. Transatlantic Investment Treaty Protection No access
6. Transatlantic Investment Treaty Protection – A response to Poulsen, Bonnitcha & Yackee No access
7. TTIP and Consumer Protection No access
8. TTIP’s Broader Geostrategic Implications No access
9. Agriculture, Food and TTIP: Possibilities and pitfalls No access
10. TTIP and Public Procurement No access
11. TTIP: The services dimension No access
12. Telecommunications and the Internet: TTIP's digital dimension No access
13. Greater TTIP Ambition in Chemicals: Why and how No access
14. TTIP and Energy No access
15. Gains from Convergence in US and EU Auto Regulations under TTIP No access
About the CEPS-CTR Project: TTIP in the Balance No access Pages 537 - 537
