international relations; trade; the EU; the USA

The article aims to compare and briefly summarize previous transatlantic trade agreements with the TTIP proposal. The article introduces the historical bases of transatlantic agreements in the introduction part. The first and the second part of the article have described the level of knowledge, recent theoretical approaches, and their application. The third part of the article is about the comparison of the current proposal of the TTIP with previous agreements (Transatlantic Declaration /1990/, New Transatlantic Agenda /1995/ and Transatlantic Economic Partnership /1998/). In the fourth part of the article, the author evaluates what continues and what is new in the TTIP proposal. In the end, the author explains opportunities and threats, for both the EU and the US, from the TTIP proposal.