The Trans-Pacific Partnership helps position the United States as a power in the Asia-Pacific and counterbalances the rising Chinese power. Previous cases show that what starts as a limited economic cooperation usually spills into other areas, facilitating deeper social and political coordination, according to political scientist Evren Celik Wiltse. The assistant professor at South Dakota State University specializes in international political economy and development.
From a trade perspective, the Trans-Pacific Partnership will likely benefit U.S. agricultural producers aiming to increase exports, but it’s the details of the agreement which will reveal which sectors gain—and lose, Wiltse explained. “Patent rights are sticky issue for all sectors.”
Contact Wiltse for comment on the Trans-Pacific Partnership at 651-788-0886 or [email protected].
She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, and her doctorate degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the 2015-16 Daschle Research Fellow at SDSU, working on the NAFTA at Twenty project.
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