North American Regionalism and Global Spread

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.

As Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, Imtiaz Hussain has published on North American dynamics, democratization, West European integration, and globalization; received several transnational research fellowships; and won numerous teaching awards in both the United States and Mexico. He is from Bangladesh.

Roberto Domínguez is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Suffolk University, Boston, USA. He was Jean Monnet Post-Doctoral Researcher at the European University Institute, Florence. His recent publications include Security Governance and Regional Organizations (2011) and European Union Foreign Policy (2008).

1. North American Economic Integration: State versus Supranational Preferences?

2. North American Trade: Growth with Strings?

3. NAFTA and Foreign Direct Investment: Multilateralism Matters

4. NAFTA's "Lynchpin": Dispute Settlement Mechanisms

5. NAFTA and Intellectual Property Rights: Regionally Strapped?

6. Environmental Side-Agreement: Societal Sideshow?

7. NAFTA's Side-Agreement on Labor: Sidelined Forever?

8. NAFTA's Inter-Governmental Underbelly: Westphalian Whispers?

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