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Post-NAFTA North America

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230582859

ISBN: 978-1-349-35561-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 24, 2015

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Introduction Post-NAFTA North America: Reshaping the Economic and Political Governance of a Changing Region

Morales, Isidro

Pages: 1 –5

[Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into ruling, it has been perceived by their respective political elites and public opinion, at least in Canada and Mexico, as a mechanism geared to the integration of the three economies. Canadians talk about formalizing, through NAFTA,...
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The Challenges of Globalization for US Economic Leadership: the Nesting of Regionalism in Washington’s Neoliberal Trade Agenda

Morales, Isidro

Pages: 9 –37

[The core argument of this chapter is that the regionalization process formalized under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was crafted as part of a major strategy of US trade diplomacy for advancing and expanding a new market-oriented regulatory framework for dealing with the major...
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The Governance of Economic Openness through Trade Regimes: NAFTA as a Model of US Open Regionalism for the Americas

Morales, Isidro

Pages: 38 –73

[NAFTA was not only conceived to increase trade and investment flows among the partners; it was also devised as a disciplinary regime aiming to reduce non-tariff and non-trade barriers affecting cross-border trade and investment decisions. In other words, NAFTA has established a rules-based trade...
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After NAFTA: Trade Regionalization and the Emergence of a North American Economic Space

Morales, Isidro

Pages: 77 –121

[NAFTA not only introduced a disciplinary benchmark among state participants, but it also conveyed a ‘policy shock’ in the region; that is, once firms and market actors realized the complete phasing out of barriers to both trade and investment and the new market-oriented disciplines of the game,...
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The Rise and Demise of Mexico’s ‘NAFTA-plus Approach’: the Scope and Limits of a North American Agenda Coming from the South

Morales, Isidro

Pages: 122 –144

[This chapter will review how Mexico attempted to put forward its own agenda under a new post-NAFTA North America. The Mexican case becomes salient for many reasons because it shows the possibilities and the limits that weaker partners have in order to push forward their own interests within...
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Policing Borders in North America after September 11: From Barricaded Borders to the Growing Governmentalization of Human and Material Flows

Morales, Isidro

Pages: 147 –168

[NAFTA was not conceived as a mechanism for promoting political cooperation, let alone strategic integration among the three North American nations. After September 11, the region seems to have rapidly moved toward a continental security regime. After the terrorist attacks to the US, the...
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Post-NAFTA Deepening and Widening Trends: Towards the Continentalization of Energy Markets and the Enlargement of the Southern Periphery

Morales, Isidro

Pages: 169 –194

[For years, Europeans have debated about the virtues of strengthening communitarian institutions and inter-state political cooperation for ensuring the consolidation of a single economic and social space. The ‘deepening’ of integration has generally been translated into a further pooling of...
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Conclusions

Morales, Isidro

Pages: 195 –202

[Open regionalism is part of a legal transformation of an economic order, the aim of which is to consolidate market-oriented reforms at the national level and ‘disciplinary’ convergence towards the trade and corporate-oriented agenda crafted within the WTO. This new regional paradigm started its...

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