Post-NAFTA North America uniquely combines an institutional examination of NAFTA with a geo-economic and geo-political approach. The author argues that in the post-9/11 era, North America is evolving from a primarily economic space to a strategic 'securitized' one and that NAFTA has been utilized by
Post-NAFTA North America: Reshaping the Economic and Political Governance of a Changing Region
β Scribed by Isidro Morales (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 249
- Series
- International Political Economy Series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction Post-NAFTA North America: Reshaping the Economic and Political Governance of a Changing Region....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The Challenges of Globalization for US Economic Leadership: the Nesting of Regionalism in Washingtonβs Neoliberal Trade Agenda....Pages 9-37
The Governance of Economic Openness through Trade Regimes: NAFTA as a Model of US Open Regionalism for the Americas....Pages 38-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
After NAFTA: Trade Regionalization and the Emergence of a North American Economic Space....Pages 77-121
The Rise and Demise of Mexicoβs βNAFTA-plus Approachβ: the Scope and Limits of a North American Agenda Coming from the South....Pages 122-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Policing Borders in North America after September 11: From Barricaded Borders to the Growing Governmentalization of Human and Material Flows....Pages 147-168
Post-NAFTA Deepening and Widening Trends: Towards the Continentalization of Energy Markets and the Enlargement of the Southern Periphery....Pages 169-194
Conclusions....Pages 195-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-234
β¦ Subjects
Political Economy; European Politics; International Relations; Regional and Cultural Studies; International Economics; Sociology, general
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