Amidst a Global Trade War: China, Japan and the United States and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for a Transpacific Partnership ()
ABSTRACT
Due to
the US withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the remaining 11
partners entered into a new trade agreement, renamed the Comprehensive and
Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in January 2018. In this text we
examine the reasons why the “orphans” of the TPP decided to save the agreement
under a different version by first examining the two dominant explanatory
models, realism and functionalism, and then proposing a complementary one that
emphasizes the need for a strong legal and normative framework to promote the
integration of mid-powers into trans-Pacific and even global value chains. This
text also illustrates the unique leadership and activism of Japan in the
negotiation process.
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Arès, M. and Boulanger, É. (2020) Amidst a Global Trade War: China, Japan and the United States and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for a Transpacific Partnership.
Open Journal of Political Science,
10, 61-81. doi:
10.4236/ojps.2020.101006.