Greening through Trade: How American Trade Policy Is Linked to Environmental Protection Abroad

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Sikina Jinnah (Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz) Jean-Frédéric Morin (Associate Professor, Université Laval)

Greening through Trade

How American Trade Policy Is Linked to Environmental Protection Abroad

Sikina Jinnah (Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz), Jean-Frédéric Morin (Associate Professor, Université Laval)

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MIT Press
03 March 2020

Domestic trade; Trade agreements

Series: The MIT Press

How the environmental provisions in US preferential trade agreements affect both the environmental policies of trading partners and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements.

As trade negotiations within the World Trade Organization seem permanently stalled, countries turn increasingly to preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between smaller groups of nations. Many of these PTAs incorporate environmental provisions, some of which require trading partners to enact new domestic environmental laws, and use the enforcement mechanisms available within trade agreements as tools for environmental protection. In Greening through Trade, Sikina Jinnah and Jean-Frederic Morin provide the first detailed examination of how the environmental provisions in US preferential trade agreements affect both the environmental policies of trading partners and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements. They do so through a combination of in-depth qualitative case studies and quantitative analysis of an original dataset of 688 global PTAs.

Jinnah and Morin explore the effects of linkages between PTAs and environmental treaties and the diffusion of environmental norms and policy through PTAs. Centrally, they argue that US trade agreements can serve as mechanisms both to export environmental policies to trading partner nations and third-party countries and to enhance the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements by strengthening their enforcement capacity. They caution that PTAs are not a panacea for environmental governance; deeper problems of unsustainable consumption and differential power dynamics between trading partners must be carefully navigated in deploying trade agreements for environmental protection.

By: Sikina Jinnah (Associate Professor University of California Santa Cruz), Jean-Frédéric Morin (Associate Professor, Université Laval)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
ISBN: 9780262538725
ISBN 10: 0262538725
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 March 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sikina Jinnah is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of the award-winning book Post-Treaty Politics- Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press). Jean-Frederic Morin holds the Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy and is Full Professor of Political Science at Universite Laval, Quebec.

Reviews for Greening through Trade: How American Trade Policy Is Linked to Environmental Protection Abroad

Greening through Trade is a well-structured venture into an expanding policy area, which, thanks to its written delivery, remains captivating and accessible for trade policy experts, scholars from diverse disciplines, and practitioners alike. -Environmental Politics