EU and the New Trade Bilateralism

<p>International trade policy including the trade policies of the European Union (EU) has become controversial in recent years. This book illuminates the politicised process of the EU’s contemporary trade negotiations.</p><p></p><p>The book uses the notion of ‘contentious market regulation’ to examine contemporary EU Free-Trade Agreements (FTAs) with industrialised countries: the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the USA (TTIP) the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA) the EU-South Korea Agreement (KOREU) and the EU’s agreement with Japan (EU-Japan). It also analyses cross-cutting issues affecting trade policy such as business dimensions social mobilisation parliamentary assertion and investment.</p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of European Integration</i>.</p>