The Impacts of NAFTA on North America

Why was NAFTA not extended, even after fulfilling several stated objectives? Investigating a number of roadblocks (balancing regional and multilateral environmental obligations, migration and refugee spillovers, synchronizing federal, state, and local investment laws, societal transnationalism over education, for instance, sociological/anthropological concerns over transformations at the local level, gender relations, and the impacts of the 2008 recession and H1N1 pandemic), several scholars elevate the growing but neglected importance of parallel intra-state and transnational dynamics demanding attention. Utilizing James Rosenau's state-multi-centric models, their conclusions/implications shed light not just why North American integration is not working, but on broader regional experiments.

Imtiaz Hussain is Professor of International Relations in Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana, teaching mostly international relations, negotiations, and regional integration theories. His recent books include North American Homeland Security: Back to Bilateralism? (2008); Community, Diffusion, and North American Expansiveness (2008); Running on Empty Across Central America: Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. Integrative Efforts (2006); Globalization, Indigenous Groups, and Mexico’s Plan Puebla Plan (2006); and articles in Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence (2008); South Asian Survey (2008); Politics & Policy (2008); Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (2006); and Norteamérica (2006), among others. A recipient of several fellowships and teaching awards, he received his Political Science PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (1989), and is from Bangladesh.

List of Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Beneath, Beyond, or Within North America's Regional Box: Paradigm Indigestion?	p. 1
North America's Regionalisms Face Globalism: Integrating Climate Change Responses	p. 21
Mexico-Canada Biotech Image: The Role of the Broader Scientific Community	p. 39
North American Anti-Immigration Rhetorics: Continental Circulation and Global Resonance of Discursive Integration	p. 63
Integration through NAFTA's Chapter 11: Eroding Federalism and Regionalism?	p. 93
Thick Borders and the Challenge of North American Policy Coordination Post-Bush: What's Next?	p. 107
Three Amigos and a Nonregional Player: China as a Challenge Inside and Outside the NAFTA Box	p. 123
Natural Resources and Out-Migration in Local Communities of Southern Mexico: Non-NAFTA Issues Impacting NAFTA	p. 141
Gendering NAFTA: Utopian Vision?	p. 159
Developing National and International Civic Engagement Networks: The International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy	p. 181
North American Integration and Recession: Paradigm Change?	p. 209
The 2009 H1N1 Outbreak: A Chaotic North American Trigger with Evolving Global Consequences	p. 237
Conclusion: Rising to the Occasion: Coordinating Tumult	p. 253
Index	p. 259
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