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This section contains news and analysis of sweeping developments that affect the overall push and pull towards FTAs and bilateral investment treaties. This means major trends relating to bilateralism, often with global consequences, and other cross-cutting issues. New developments arising from US politics, the WTO or South-South alliance-building, for instance, are often reported here as they tend to have systemic impacts.

last update: May 2012

Intensifying global crisis and conflict
20-Jan-2017     E-Pao
On behalf of monopoly firms and local elites, imperialist states have been competing to rewrite international and national legal systems and regulations through trade and investment agreements
Trump will renegotiate our trade deals. Will it really be on behalf of workers?
16-Jan-2017     Washington Post
But the mere act of renegotiating our trade deals doesn’t automatically mean the outcome will benefit the workers.
The rise and fall of mega trade deals
16-Jan-2017     American University Washington College of Law
Panel discussing the rise and fall of major trade deals.
Time for a US-Japanese free trade agreement?
10-Jan-2017     Foreign Affaires
If he is serious about keeping free trade alive, then the best place for Trump to start would be with Japan, argues Michael Auslin
Don’t cry over dead trade agreements
14-Dec-2016     Live Mint
If we can manage our own economies well, new trade pacts will become largely redundant.
Secret TiSA trade deal equally as dangerous as TPP and TTIP finds new report
2-Dec-2016     Friends of the Earth International
The current trade and investment system—including TTIP, TPP and TiSA—needs to be challenged and fundamentally transformed in order to achieve a more just and sustainable world.
The Donald Trump effect: India faces prospect of integrating deeper with Asia-Pacific if RCEP expands into FTAAP
25-Nov-2016     Financial Express
As a major non-APEC member of the RCEP, India faces the prospect of integrating deeper with the Asia-Pacific if the RCEP expands into the FTAAP
Trade and privacy: complicated bedfellows?
18-Nov-2016     Institute for Information Law
How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements?
We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail
17-Nov-2016     The Guardian
Rising inequality is largely to blame for this electoral upset. Continuing with business as usual is not an option.
Data flow in trade agreements
16-Nov-2016     French Government
The French Government calls on the European Commission to adopt an open and innovation-friendly data flow system while preserving European interests in trade agreements