Daniel S. Hamilton, Editor
The United States and the European Union are negotiating a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This ambitious bilateral economic agreement would incorporate a free transatlantic free trade agreement yet go far beyond it to forge understandings regarding mutual investment, open services markets, nontariff and regulatory barriers, basic ground rules of the international economic order, and new agreements in areas not yet covered by multilateral regimes.
While the potential economic impact of such an agreement has been thoroughly analyzed, little to no analysis has been conducted on the political and geostrategic aspects. This book fills that gap. It addresses such questions as whether a TTIP would strengthen or subvert the multilateral rules-based order, what TTIP might mean for other partners and other regions, and how such a partnership might affect broader debates about Western decline or renewal.
Chapter 1 The Strategic Significance of TTIP, Charles Ries
Chapter 2 The Geopolitical Implications of TTIP, Robert D. Hormats
Chapter 3 Parsing TTIP’s Gepolitical Implications, Charles A. Kupchan
Chapter 4 TTIP: Don’t Lose Momentum! Thomas Straubhaar
Chapter 5 TTIP, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia, Edward Lucas
Chapter 6 TTIP’s Implications for the Global Economic Integration of Central and Eastern Europe, Tamas Novak
Chapter 7 TTIP and Turkey: The Geopolitical Dimension, Kemal Kirisci
Chapter 8 The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in the Global Context, Michael G. Plummer
Chapter 9 CETA and TTIP: Implications and Lessons Learned, Colin Robertson
Chapter 10 The Impact of TTIP on Brazil, Vera Thorstensen and Lucas Ferraz
Chapter 11 TTIP and Sub-Saharan Africa: A Proposal to Harmonize EU and U.S. Preferences
