Date: 2015
Type: Book
North American regionalism and global spread
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
HUSSAIN, A. Imtiaz, DOMÍNGUEZ, Roberto, North American regionalism and global spread, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/35114
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With Canada, Mexico, and the United States independently searching trade-agreements outside North America, this volume examines the puzzle if the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement was a means to other ends or an end in itself. A study of 20-years of NAFTA performances on trade, investment, intellectual property rights, dispute-settlement, as well as environmental and labor side-agreements confirms the means component of the equation. Couching this empirical dissonance within the integration-interdependence theoretical debate, permits us to propose the next research agenda: whether other regional economic arrangements also face the same NAFTA fate.
Table of Contents:
-- Prelims pages i–vi
-- Acknowledgments pages vii–viii
-- List of Abbreviations pages ix–xii
-- Chapter 1. North American Economic Integration: State or Supranational Preferences? pages 1–12
-- Chapter 2. North American Trade: Growth with Strings? pages 13–32
-- Chapter 3. NAFTA and Foreign Direct Investment: Multilateralism Matters pages 33–48
-- Chapter 4. NAFTA’s “Linchpin”: Dispute Settlement Mechanisms pages 49–72
-- Chapter 5. NAFTA and Intellectual Property Rights: Regionally Strapped? pages 73–94
-- Chapter 6. Environmental Side Agreement: Societal Sideshow? pages 95–112
-- Chapter 7. NAFTA’s Side Agreement on Labor: Sidelined Forever? pages 113–128
-- Chapter 8. NAFTA’s Intergovernmental Underbelly: Of Westphalian Whispers and Global Ghosts pages 129–144
-- Appendices pages 145–186
-- Notes pages 187–214
-- Bibliography pages 215–234
-- Index pages 235–251
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/35114
Full-text via DOI: 10.1057/9781137493347
ISBN: 9781137497918; 9781137493347
