The new gold standard? Empirically situating the TPP in the investment treaty universe

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1 Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Center for Trade and Economic Integration Working Paper Series Working Paper N IHEIDCTEI The new gold standard? Empirically situating the TPP in the investment treaty universe Wolfgang Alschner Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, World Trade Institute Dmitriy Skougarevskiy Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Institute for the Rule of Law at European University at St. Petersburg Rue de Lausanne 132 P.O. Box 136 CH Geneva 21 Geneva, Switzerland c The Authors. All rights reserved. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. No part of this paper may be reproduced without the permission of the authors.

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19 Index Coded Scores NAFTA SGP VNM BIT AUS VNM BIT MYS VNM BIT CAN CHL FTA AUS PER BIT AUS CHL BIT CHL NZL NZL SGP BIT FTA CHL VNM BIT CAN PER CAN PER AUS CHL BIT FTA USA SGP USA CHL FTA USA PER FTA JPN CHL FTA ASEAN AUS NZL NZL MYS FTA FTA JPN MEX FTA ASEAN JPN SGP FTA JPN BRN JPN PER FTA BIT JPN MYS FTA SGP PER FTA JPN VNM BIT USA AUS FTA AUS SGP FTA SGP PER BIT MEX AUS BIT TPP AUS NZL FTA JPN AUS FTA AUS MYS FTA MEX SGP BIT Year TPP-entrenching-flaws-18-Nov-FINAL.pdf

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HUN POL BGD TUR CUB RUS CYP MKD ALB RUS LBN AUT HRV POL JOR EST TUR NLD JOR AUT BOL AUT CHL CZE LBN TUR IDN TUR LVA ITA UZB ITA PAK TUR MNG BGR EGY MYS SDN NLD GEO TUR MYS MYS ETH NLD MEX LBN MYS MUS ZAF NLD HRV CHL TUR JPN BGD TUR DZA CHL ZAF IDN BGD CHE IRN EGY BIH BEL PAK JPN PAK ISR SVN TUR BIH CHN BHR CHL VNM PRK BGD CZE BGR MUS NPL TUR SDN ARG PHL CHL EGY CHE CHL NLD CUB CHN QAT PAK YEM TUR PHL VNM TJK GBR SLV CHL LBN RUS LTU ITA IRN TUR YEM SAU MYS UZB BGD BHR JOR JOR SDN TUR ETH TUR ZAF CHN IRN ITA NGA HUN MKD AUT EGY AUT SRB AUT BLR SVN BIH AUT IRN NLD GMB BGR PAK DZA ETH AUT PHL NLD TJK HUN TUN BGR THA NLD LAO MLT TUR IRN ETH SGP BGD TUR AFG TUR SYR ALB MDA NLD ARM RUS CHN SWE BOL ESP SVK ESP CZE CHN MNG TUR ROU CZE CHN AUT KOR AUT CPV CHN VNM CHN BOL PRT CHN POL CYP CHN GEO CHN HRV SVN CHN KAZ EGY CHN ALB ESP PHL CHN ROU DNK ROU CHN PER CHL CHN CHN AZE KOR PHL TKM PAK CYP ARM CHN CUB ROU PAK ISR TKM ISR KAZ IRN PAK CHN KHM CHN ZWE CHN BGD CHN ZMB CZE HRV PAK SYR TUR IRN IRN 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