Jan 27,2014 Topics of the Month TPP – 1 Japan and the United States in the Transpacific Partnership: Costs, Benefits, and the Politics of Getting to Yes The TPP has risen from modest origins as an FTA among Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore to become the centerpiece of US trade strategy in the Asia-Pacific. It is breathtaking in its ambition to be […] William W. Grimes Abe Shinzo , model of economic governance , third arrow , Trans-Pacific Partnership , US Congress