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Trans-Pacific Partnership versus Comprehensive Economic Partnership: Control of Membership and Agenda Setting

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This paper argues that the formation of regional integration frameworks can be best understood as a dominant state’s attempt to create a preferred regional framework in which it can exercise exclusive influence. In this context, it is important to observe not only which countries are included in a regional framework, but also which countries are excluded from it. For example, the distinct feature of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is its exclusion of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and that of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is its exclusion of the United States. An exclusion of a particular country does not mean that the excluded country will perpetually remain outside the framework. In fact, TPP may someday include the PRC, resulting from a policy of the United States “engaging” or “socializing” the PRC rather than “balancing” against it. However, the first step of such a policy is to establish a regional framework from which the target country of engagement is excluded.

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  • Hamanaka, Shintaro, 2014. "Trans-Pacific Partnership versus Comprehensive Economic Partnership: Control of Membership and Agenda Setting," Working Papers on Regional Economic Integration 146, Asian Development Bank.
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    1. Debashis CHAKRABORTY & Anushree CHAKRABORTY, 2017. "Economic and Political Cooperation between India and East Asia: The Emerging Perspective," Journal of Economics and Political Economy, KSP Journals, vol. 4(2), pages 144-158, June.
    2. Chakraborty, Debashis & Chakraborty, Anushree, 2018. "India’s Act East Policy: Walking the Talk," MPRA Paper 88034, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    free trade agreements (FTAs); Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP); Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP); membership; exclusion; agenda setting;
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    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F53 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations

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