Post-NAFTA North America Economic and Political Governance in a Changing Region

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ISBN: 9780230517967 | 023051796X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/15/2008

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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 the US as a regulatory framework for dealing with the pressures of globalization that have emerged in the post-Cold War era.

List of Figures	p. x
List of Tables	p. xi
Foreword	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction: Post-NAFTA North America: Reshaping the Economic and Political Governance of a Changing Region	p. 1
The Nature and Limits of Regional Disciplinary Governance in an Era of Globalization
The Challenges of Globalization for US Economic Leadership: the Nesting of Regionalism in Washington's Neoliberal Trade Agenda	p. 9
Introduction	p. 9
Globalization and the emergence of the network economy	p. 10
Globalization and the challenges to state-centered governance	p. 17
The renewal of US leadership under networked-governance regimes	p. 24
The Road to NAFTA	p. 35
The Governance of Economic Openness through Trade Regimes: NAFTA as a Model of US Open Regionalism for the Americas	p. 38
Introduction	p. 38
NAFTA as a disciplinary regime for facilitating the governance of cross-country economic openness	p. 39
NAFTA's functional areas grounded on negotiation and compromise	p. 48
NAFTA's functional areas grounded on 'quasi' adjudicatory decisions	p. 54
Improving or 'deepening' NAFTA's institutional mechanisms	p. 69
The Post-NAFTA North American Economic and Social Space
After NAFTA: Trade Regionalization and the Emergence of a North American Economic Space	p. 77
Introduction	p. 77
The regionalization trend: commercial and investment flows within North America	p. 78
The changing nature of international investment flows	p. 94
Geography matters: the emergence of a continental hub with spokes at the cross-border level	p. 105
Is there a periphery in North America?	p. 117
The Rise and Demise of Mexico's 'NAFTA-plus Approach': the Scope and Limits of a North American Agenda Coming from the South	p. 122
Introduction	p. 122
Mexico's 'NAFTA-plus' according to the Fox administration	p. 123
The nesting of a bilateral 'Partnership for Prosperity'	p. 131
Is there room for the 'developmental' state?	p. 134
The politics of oil wealth. The challenges for keeping Mexico in the continental energy market	p. 137
Re-shaping the Geopolitical Space of North America and its Contours
Policing Borders in North America after September 11: From Barricaded Borders to the Growing Governmentalization of Human and Material Flows	p. 147
Introduction	p. 147
Towards the emergence of a North American security regime: the US 'great idea' for inducing political cooperation from its NAFTA partners	p. 148
Securing the Mexican borderline: from deterrence to prevention	p. 156
Protection without protectionism: Canada's approach for securing its borderline	p. 164
Post-NAFTA Deepening and Widening Trends: Towards the Continentalization of Energy Markets and the Enlargement of the Southern Periphery	p. 169
Introduction	p. 169
Towards a continental energy partnership: a two-speed 'deepening' for the region?	p. 170
The widening of NAFTA: US hub and spoke trade policy with Central America and the western hemisphere	p. 180
Conclusions	p. 195
Notes	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 231
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