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Here is today’s premium R&D to accompany today’s premium topic brief on the British parliamentary election (2015).
Freed From Coalition, David Cameron Picks Conservative Cabinet http://t.co/ZhOLShZyWn
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) May 11, 2015
How the Tories won the general election air war http://t.co/f9r2NkDDik
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 11, 2015
What does @David_Cameron’s electoral victory mean for the future of the UK in the EU? Read @Judy_Dempsey: http://t.co/c1G158JPrc
— Carnegie Endowment (@CarnegieEndow) May 11, 2015
Free trade deals are one of the hallmarks of globalization. They allow countries to reduce trade barriers, allow for a freer flow of goods and services, and are tool of “soft” diplomacy. The 1990s and 2000s was an era for American free trade accords as the United States worked with Canada and Mexico to create the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and then signed additional agreements with another eighteen countries. While proponents argue that these deals will allow consumers to acquire cheaper goods and that the deals serve America’s geopolitical interests, opponents allege that they strengthen the power of corporations at the expense of the middle class and that they produce sizable job losses. Growing trade skepticism could impair the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade accord between the United States and eleven other nations in the Pacific Rim. President Barack Obama is a supporter of the TPP and is pushing Congress to grant him trade promotion authority (TPA) to conclude the deal. Ironically, Republicans who have been an obstruction to much of the President’s agenda for the last six years are his biggest allies in the TPP fight, but Obama will likely have to win over some moderate Democrats to overcome opposition from unions and progressives to make the TPP a reality.
Here is today’s premium R&D to accompany