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The Bush team was outspoken in its hostility to a range of international agreements, from the Kyoto Treaty to reduce global warming to the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
Regional and bilateral free-trade
agreements
have also multiplied since 1998, with even China establishing such an arrangement with ASEAN at the beginning of this year.
Earlier this year, Rosneft signed three
agreements
with ExxonMobil, Eni, and Statoil exceeding $700 billion in total – an amount that dwarfs all other recent foreign direct investment in Russia combined.
Such concerns have even made their way into debates about the mega-regional free-trade
agreements
– namely, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the US and the European Union, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership – that are currently being negotiated.
In fact, such an approach – which has the potential to derail
agreements
that would bring considerable benefits to the economies involved – is based on a fallacy.
The economist Jeffrey Frankel has called currency manipulation a chimera, declaring that “linking efforts to prevent currency manipulation to trade
agreements
has always been a bad idea, and it still is.”
But the most contentious part of debt restructuring could well be reaching inter-governmental
agreements.
Free-trade
agreements
are as important to the UK’s effort to ensure its agricultural sector’s competitiveness as they were to New Zealand.
But the most pressing goal must be for Britain to decide what kinds of farms and food it wants to develop, and then to protect their interests in its deals with the world’s major exporters, with which it is attempting to conclude free-trade
agreements.
Moreover, unlike New Zealand’s negotiators, who always placed agriculture at the top of the agenda, UK negotiators are poorly placed to ensure that free-trade
agreements
protect domestic farmers.
As a result, far from protecting national agricultural objectives, new free-trade
agreements
are likely to bring increases in cheap food imports.
But, like many last-minute agreements, it would have little durable impact.
But the new investment provisions embedded in the trade
agreements
that the Obama administration is negotiating across both oceans imply that accompanying any such foreign direct investment comes a marked reduction in governments’ abilities to regulate the environment, health, working conditions, and even the economy.
Just imagine how different international relations would be if American leaders could visit Myanmar (or even Iran) with equal ease and have friendly discussions about
agreements
and disagreements.
Moreover, economic
agreements
may promote closer cooperation in other realms.
It is critically important that all UN members, whether big or small, insist that these global
agreements
still direct the world’s actions, regardless of what Trump does.
Sovereign Debt at Square OneCAMBRIDGE – Argentina and its bankers have been barred from making payments to fulfill debt-restructuring
agreements
reached with the country’s creditors, unless the 7% of creditors who rejected the
agreements
are paid in full – a judgment that is likely to stick, now that the US Supreme Court has upheld it.
Either way, future voluntary debt-workout
agreements
have just become more difficult to reach, which will leave debtors and creditors alike worse off.
Throughout this process, ASEAN’s leaders must bear in mind a crucial lesson of the EU: high-level
agreements
that lack the consent of ordinary people have limited effectiveness and longevity.
Doing this will require the key players responsible for the Internet’s openness to enter into a mix of voluntary and binding
agreements
that establish something akin to the rule of law.
These are important first steps, but if the process does not eventually lead to binding agreements, it is unlikely to succeed in keeping the Internet functioning and safe.
A possible stepping-stone would be
agreements
between smaller groups of pivotal countries to cap emissions from individual high-emitting sectors of their economies.
Such
agreements
could be important building blocks for a broader deal.
Trade agreements, too, would have to be renegotiated in the wake of a Brexit.
Although recent events call into question local security conditions and transitional governments’ commitment to international agreements, Arab leaders welcome the shift in focus from their policy failures.
For example, a fundamental problem is that the nature of global trade is constantly evolving, and existing
agreements
have only limited capacity to adapt.
Services like education, banking, accounting, and insurance account for an ever larger share of global output (now roughly two-thirds), and further expansion requires significant changes in existing
agreements.
But these are precisely the range of goods that remain most protected under existing
agreements.
Absent further trade agreements, there is a big risk that the pace of globalization will slow, with profound consequences for global poverty and welfare.
The weak and only partly implemented Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, and the world requires a much stronger framework, one that sets a strong target for stabilizing greenhouse gases by 2050 by including
agreements
on ending tropical deforestation, developing high-mileage automobiles, and shifting to low CO2-emitting power plants.
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