Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Perspectives -- Introduction -- Geopolitical economy -- FTAS, statistics, and Korea -- Containment and South Korean development -- The Korean FTA strategy -- FTAs as development strategy -- FTA consequences -- The geopolitics of FTAs -- South Korea...

This paper uses data on emissions per capita of ten air pollutants and municipal waste to investigate the potential impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on the empirical validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Using a dataset of the twenty-eight EU...