The Institutions of TPP11: Back to the Future?
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This chapter canvasses the institutions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—left entirely unchanged in TPP11—to assess their cumulative potential to contribute to ties of solidarity among regulatory elites and consequently foster (mega)regional integration. The promise of treaty institutions as conduits of sanguine economic integration, the narrative championed by TPP’s architects, is contrasted with a more critical account in which plurilateral institutions are seen to serve as mechanisms to advance particular economic interests in the face of opposition in the almost-universal trade governance institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). This “divide and conquer” strategy, so the argument goes, dominates in TPP’s institutions, which remain generally weak and unconnected to existing frameworks in Asia and beyond. But they also vary significantly between stronger mechanisms primarily for business interests and almost entirely aspirational efforts in more social areas such as environment, labor, and development.
Source Publication
Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering After TPP
Source Editors/Authors
Benedict Kingsbury, David M. Malone, Paul Mertenskötter, Richard B. Stewart, Thomas Streinz, Atsushi Sunami
Publication Date
2019
Recommended Citation
Howse, Robert L., "The Institutions of TPP11: Back to the Future?" (2019). Faculty Chapters. 834.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/834
