IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/jes/wpaper/y2017v9i3p233-254.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Negotiating the Transatlantic deal: focus on the EU's domestic constraints

Author

Listed:
  • Alina ALEXOAEI

    (assistant professor at The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania;)

  • Valentin COJANU

    (professor at The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania;)

Abstract

The paper focuses on emphasising the role that internal constraints and domestic political events play in designing the strategic behaviour and position of the EU in the negotiation process of The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP. The paper pursues a three-pronged approach in order to: (1) identify and define the set of domestic constraints, (2) assess their influence on EU’s strategic position, and (3) suggest both available and desirable future courses of action to improve the negotiation outcome. The results should inform the approach towards the general structure of negotiations to be accomplished through a multi-level analysis: starting from a broad EU perspective on the deal, complemented by a disaggregated domestic level perspective that will emphasize EU members’ position and interests in the agreement, as well as an industry/sector-based implications of each item on the negotiations agenda.

Suggested Citation

  • Alina ALEXOAEI & Valentin COJANU, 2017. "Negotiating the Transatlantic deal: focus on the EU's domestic constraints," CES Working Papers, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 9(3), pages 233-254, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:jes:wpaper:y:2017:v:9:i:3:p:233-254
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://ceswp.uaic.ro/articles/CESWP2017_IX3_ALE.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jeronim Capaldo, 2014. "The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: European Disintegration, Unemployment and Instability," GDAE Working Papers 14-03, GDAE, Tufts University.
    2. Lionel Fontagné & Julien Gourdon & Sébastien Jean, 2013. "Transatlantic Trade: Whither Partnership, Which Economic Consequences?," CEPII Policy Brief 2013-01, CEPII research center.
    3. Arita, Shawn & Mitchell, Lorraine & Beckman, Jayson, 2015. "Estimating the Effects of Selected Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Technical Barriers to Trade on U.S.-EU Agricultural Trade," Economic Research Report 212887, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    4. Young, Alasdair R. & Peterson, John, 2014. "Parochial Global Europe: 21st Century Trade Politics," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199579907.
    5. Mansfield, Edward D. & Mutz, Diana C., 2009. "Support for Free Trade: Self-Interest, Sociotropic Politics, and Out-Group Anxiety," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 63(3), pages 425-457, July.
    6. Baldwin, Robert & Cave, Martin & Lodge, Martin (ed.), 2010. "The Oxford Handbook of Regulation," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199560219.
    7. Rahel Aichele & Gabriel Felbermayr & Inga Heiland & Gabriel J. Felbermayr, 2014. "Going Deep: The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP," CESifo Working Paper Series 5150, CESifo.
    8. Putnam, Robert D., 1988. "Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 42(3), pages 427-460, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Engler, Philipp & Tervala, Juha, 2018. "Welfare effects of TTIP in a DSGE model," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 230-238.
    2. Agnieszka Poczta-Wajda, & Agnieszka Sapa, 2017. "Potential Trade Effects Of Tariff Liberalization Under The Transatlantic Trade And Investment Partnership (Ttip) For The Eu Agri-Food Sector," Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland, vol. 44(2), June.
    3. Bekkers, Eddy & Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo, 2016. "Quantitative trade models and the economic assessment of TTIP," Conference papers 332769, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    4. repec:gnv:wpaper:unige:77631 is not listed on IDEAS
    5. Céline Carrère & Anja Grujovic & Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, 2020. "Trade and Frictional Unemployment in the Global Economy," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 18(6), pages 2869-2921.
    6. Aichele Rahel & Felbermayr Gabriel J. & Heiland Inga, 2016. "TTIP and Intra-European Trade: Boon or Bane?," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 236(6), pages 639-664, December.
    7. Oliver Krebs & Michael Pflüger, 2018. "How deep is your love? A quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(1), pages 171-222, February.
    8. Gabriel Felbermayr & Wilhelm Kohler & Rahel Aichele & Günther Klee & Erdal Yalcin, 2015. "Potential impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partner (TTIP) on developing and emerging countries," ifo Forschungsberichte, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 67.
    9. Bekkers, Eddy, 2019. "The welfare effects of trade policy experiments in quantitative trade models: The role of solution methods and baseline calibration," WTO Staff Working Papers ERSD-2019-02, World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division.
    10. Houssein Guimbard & Maëlan Le Goff, 2014. "Mega-deals: What Consequences for sub-Saharan Africa?," Working Papers 2014-28, CEPII research center.
    11. Eddy Bekkers & Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, 2018. "Non-tariff Measure Estimations in Different Impact Assessments," RSCAS Working Papers 2018/40, European University Institute.
    12. Krebs, Oliver & Pflüger, Michael P., 2015. "How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership," IZA Discussion Papers 9021, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    13. Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, 2017. "Potential Economic Effects of TTIP for the Netherlands," De Economist, Springer, vol. 165(3), pages 271-294, September.
    14. Christopher S.P. Magee, 2017. "The Increasing Irrelevance of Trade Diversion," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 70(2), pages 278-305, May.
    15. Latorre, María C. & Yonezawa, Hidemichi, 2018. "Stopped TTIP? Its potential impact on the world and the role of neglected FDI," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 99-120.
    16. Gabriel Felbermayr & Rahel Aichele & Gabriel J. Felbermayr, 2014. "Transatlantic Free Trade: The View Point of Germany," CESifo Working Paper Series 5151, CESifo.
    17. Fritz Breuss, 2020. "Pro-Globalization via FTAs in Times of COVID-19," WIFO Working Papers 617, WIFO.
    18. Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén, 2020. "Parliamentary Influence Ten Years after Lisbon: EU Trade Negotiations with Japan," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(6), pages 1540-1557, November.
    19. Nils D Steiner, 2018. "Attitudes towards the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in the European Union: The treaty partner heuristic and issue attention," European Union Politics, , vol. 19(2), pages 255-277, June.
    20. Jacob Wood & Gohar Feroz Khan, 2015. "International trade negotiation analysis: network and semantic knowledge infrastructure," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 105(1), pages 537-556, October.
    21. Ethan B Kapstein, 2006. "Architects of stability? International cooperation among financial supervisors," BIS Working Papers 199, Bank for International Settlements.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:jes:wpaper:y:2017:v:9:i:3:p:233-254. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Alupului Ciprian (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/csjesro.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.