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This essay will present the views of a US observer on the politics and substance of the European Commission's proposed new policies toward bilateral and regional trade agreements. It will contrast both the rationale advanced by the Commission and the underlying politics surrounding FTAs with the situations in the United States, particularly the record of the Bush administration "Competitive Liberalisation" policy. It will also describe additional political and security considerations that form the basis for US regional trade policy. Finally, it will advance tentative predictions for the FTA policy in the future.
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The European Commission's Communication On External Policy: A Us Perspective
From the perspective of a US observer, there is both irony and a sense of déjà vu when it comes to assessing the publication of the European Commission's new "Communication: Global Europe: Competing in the World." Irony, because the decision by the commission to mount a new initiative, centred around Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Asia and in large part in response to the BUSH administration's "Competitive Liberalisation" agenda, comes at a time when that "Competitive Liberalisation" policy is almost certainly to be thwarted by a new Democratic Congress that assumes power in January 2007. Déjà vu because significant aspects of the rationales advanced for the new EU initiative track the rationales and circumstances that accompanied the BUSH administration's original explanation in 2001 for the increased priority given to bilateral and regional FTAs. There are also, one should add, significant differences. Let me take the i...
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