TITLE:
CETA, an Innovative Agreement with Many Unsettled Trajectories
AUTHORS:
Michèle Rioux, Christian Deblock, Guy-Philippe Wells
KEYWORDS:
Trade, Agreements, Innovation, Transatlantic, Integration, Regulation, Cooperation, Globalization, Innovation, Progressive Trade
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Political Science,
Vol.10 No.1,
December
31,
2019
ABSTRACT: Can trade agreements integrate innovations and
progressive dispositions? In this era of fast changes linked to globalization
and technological changes which fuel discontent, this question has emerged in
the literature and in the negotiation processes of many recent agreements. In the first section of this article, we will introduce the structural
changes that are beneath the surface of recent trade agreements using a
typology of trade agreements enabling comparative analysis. In the second
section, we will discuss some of the most important innovations of the
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiated by Canada and the
European Union. In the third section, we will see that part of the innovative
nature of CETA, its evolutionary nature, brings many unsettled trajectories. In
the fourth section, we will discuss how CETA is further unsettled in its
trajectory because it puts into relation two distinctive integration models
highlighted in our typology, one developed in Europe and the other in North
America and, furthermore, because of the more general context that also puts
into play Asia and China as emerging shapers of economic trade agreements.