Reevaluating NAFTA [electronic resource] : theory and practice /
Hussain, I.author.
Depicting NAFTA to be but a stepping stone rather than final product of regional economic integrative efforts, a chapter-specific 15-year assessment conveys the upsides and downsides of North America's Camelot moment.
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Cover; Reevaluating NAFTA; Reevaluating NAFTA: Theory and Practice; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: NAFTA's 15-Year Itch; Puzzle; Empirical Assessment; Causal Factors; Constraints; Methodology; Theoretical Context; Organization; Chapter 2: North American Economic Integration in Theoretical Context: Neofunctionalism or Nonfunctional?; Introduction; Debates; Neofunctionalist Tenets; Chapter 3: Investment: Sticky Fingers?; Introduction; Background; Provisions; 15-Year Performance; Industrial Surges: Maquiladoras; Hub-and-Spoke Regionalism; Theoretical Observation
Chapter 4: NAFTA's Dispute-Settlement Mechanisms: Designs, 15-Year Performance,and ComparisonsBackground: Bottled Breakthroughs?; Dispute-Settlement Institutional Designs: A Comparative Overview; Performance; Mechanism-Specific Highlights; Comparative Analyses of Performance; Theoretical Analysis; Chapter 5: NAFTA and Intellectual Property Rights; Background; Mexico's Transition; NAFTA's Chapter XVII; Summary; Theoretical Analysis; Chapter 6: Increasing NAFTA Trade Trends: Incidental or Institutional?; Introduction; Background and Context of NAFTA Chapter III Provisions
Relevant NAFTA Chapter III ProvisionsRelevance of Other NAFTA Chapters on Trade; NAFTA Chapter III Performance; Tempering Soaring Temperatures: Constraints; Theoretical Analysis; Chapter 7: Pooling Empirical Observations: NAFTA as an Integrative Mirage?; Background; Pooled Observations; Conclusions: Another Echternach Waltz; Chapter 8: Players under the Microscope; Introduction; Spotlight on Canada; Snapshot of Mexico; Spotlight on the United States; Conclusion: Collective Action in Perspective; Chapter 9: Conclusions and Implications; Introduction; NAFTA: The Past Tense
Neofunctionalism: Changing the Bottle or the Wine?Statist Shift: Interdependence and Intergovernmental Alternatives; Beyond NAFTA: Future Trends; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Depicting NAFTA to be but a stepping stone rather than final product of regional economic integrative efforts, a chapter-specific 15-year assessment conveys the upsides and downsides of North America's Camelot moment.
United States.
North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17)
International organization.
Europe—Politics and government.
International relations.
Political science.
America—History.
Diplomacy.
International Organization.
European Politics.
International Relations.
Political Science.
History of the Americas.
Diplomacy.