The TPP and the international investment regulation

Abstract

… The U.S. President Barack Obama has always emphasized his desire to change direction in a great variety of field: from foreign policy, with his rapprochement with U.S’s historic enemies Iran and Cuba, to public health, with the famous Obama Care really appreciated by his supporters but hardly criticized by Republicans, until his commitment with environmental respect at all level of American policy. For the happiness of his supporters, Obama decided to leave his mark also in foreign politics, giving new fresh air to the worldwide image of his country: indeed, on October the 4th 2015, he announced that 12 countries of the Pacific Rim1 would have entered into a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Strongly desired and discussed during 5 years, the brand new TTP is a multilateral trade and investment treaty which, if ratified by the signatories, would give birth to the largest free trade area on the planet...