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Requiem or Revival? : The Promise of North American Integration.
Title:
Requiem or Revival? : The Promise of North American Integration.
Author:
Studer, Isabel.
ISBN:
9780815782001
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- No Turning Back: Trade Integration and the New Development Mandate -- Part 1: The North American Free Trade Area: Achievements and Limitations -- Unfulfilled Promise: Economic Convergence under NAFTA -- Obstacles to Integration: NAFTA's Institutional Weakness -- Trade Negotiations among NAFTA Partners: The Future of North American Economic Integration -- Part 2: The Hemispheric Context: From NAFTA to the Free Trade Area of the Americas -- Beyond the FTAA: Perspectives for Hemispheric Integration -- The FTAA Stalemate: Implications for Canadian Foreign Policy -- What Went Wrong? Brazil, the United States, and the FTAA -- Part 3: The Global Context: The New Trade Agenda and the Doha Round -- The Doha Round: Problems, Challenges, and Prospects -- U.S. Trade Politics during the Doha Round -- Mexico in the Multilateral Trading System: A Long and Winding Road -- Part 4: Beyond Trade: Energy, Migration, and North American Integration -- The Politics of Energy Markets in North America: Challenges and Prospects for a Continental Partnership -- International Energy Security and North America -- North American Immigration: The Search for Positive-Sum Returns -- Migration and Citizenship Rights in a New North American Space -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was launched amid great hopes and controversy in 1994. More than a dozen years later, progress toward economic integration has stalled. Mexico's economy remains far behind those of Canada and the United States, and such pressing issues as energy security remain unaddressed. In Requiem or Revival? scholars and policymakers from all three nations dissect NAFTA's failure to fulfill its early promise and evaluate the prospects for further integration. The authors explore the interaction between regionalism and multilateralism, the impact of the "new trade" agenda, and NAFTA's unresolved problems—migration, security, and energy. Recognizing the limits of the NAFTA framework, they examine its relationship to the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas negotiations and the Doha Development Round, and they discuss various ways in which NAFTA could be revamped or improved. The result is an intriguing volume offering important insights on the future of economic integration in North America and beyond. Contributors include Chantal Blouin (North-South Institute), Theodore H. Cohn (Simon Fraser University, emeritus), I. M. Destler (University of Maryland), Charles F. Doran (Johns Hopkins UniversitySAIS), Christina Gabriel (Carleton University), Sergio Gómez Lora (IQOM, Inteligencia Comercial), Jerry Haar (Florida International University), Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Gordon Mace (Université Laval), Isidro Morales (University of the Americas), Glauco Oliveira (University of Southern California), Antonio Ortiz Mena (CIDE), Jeffrey J. Schott (Peterson Institute for International Economics),Anne Weston (North-South Institute),Tamara Woroby (Towson University, Johns Hopkins UniversitySAIS), and Jaime Zabludovsky (Soluciones Estratégicas).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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