Our North America

Our North America

Author: Professor Julián Castro-Rea

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-04-28

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1409476774

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What we call "North America" today is a human space that has been constructed over the centuries, perceived from time immemorial by its original inhabitants as a unified whole, and named Turtle Island. What is North America today? Is it more than the sum of its parts? Does it qualify as a distinct global region? Is it just a market or also something else? This book explores several neglected aspects of the key relationships between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Studies of societal relations in North America have typically been limited to trade, investment and intergovernmental relations. In contrast, the authors in this book address other vital issues which bind this global region together, including Indigenous peoples, security, migration, civil societies, democracy, identities and culture. Via a thorough examination of these issues, the historical, sociological, economic, and political aspects of regional linkages are highlighted. Rather than dealing with each country in isolation, each chapter in this collection considers North America as a single unit of analysis, therefore systematically addressing the regional dynamic as a whole, and engaging the country-specific differences in a truly comparative way. By providing the analytical tools needed, this important book makes sense of the different aspects of the complex societies of contemporary North America.


Free Trade and the Environment

Free Trade and the Environment

Author: Kevin Gallagher

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0804751250

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'Free Trade and the Environment' examines the impact of international economic integration on the environment, taking as a case study the experience of Mexico, as it transformed itself from one of the most closed economies in the world to one of the mostopen.


Lessons from NAFTA

Lessons from NAFTA

Author: Luis Serven

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2004-11-15

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0821383744

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Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 'Lessons from NAFTA' aims to provide guidance to Latin American and Caribbean countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. The authors conclude that the treaty raised external trade and foreign investment inflows and had a modest effect on Mexico's average income per person. It is likely that the treaty also helped achieve a modest reduction in poverty and an improvement in job quality. This book will be of interest to scholars and policymakers interested in international trade and development.


NAFTA and Beyond

NAFTA and Beyond

Author: Patricia Fernandez-Kelly

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 2007-05-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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One of the most recent neo-liberal projects, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), is an example of how the term free trade can bear distinct and contradictory meanings. Examining and clarifying the complex dimensions of NAFTA and its consequences sits at the core of this special issue of The Annals, which extends to offer in-depth analyses of specific countries and regions in Asia, Latin America, and Europe.


NAFTA and Beyond

NAFTA and Beyond

Author: Joseph Jude Norton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13:

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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in December 1992 and was implemented in September 1993. The NAFTA can be regarded as the American response To The EC. This volume is designed to give broad perspectives To The NAFTA from U.S., Canadian, Mexican and South American vantage points so that the realities of NAFTA as a new framework for doing business in the Americas can be better appreciated. Furthermore, The book presents significant practical information and guidance on NAFTA on trade, services, direct investment, intellectual property, financial services and international financing matters for business persons and professionals interest in the future prospects for doing business in the Americas.


Greening the Americas

Greening the Americas

Author: Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780262541381

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"Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented and discussed in the Spring of 2000 at a conference on lessons from the NAFTA for the FTAA"--Pref.


The Children of NAFTA

The Children of NAFTA

Author: David Bacon

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0520237781

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This is a journalistic chronicle of contemporary labor wars and organizing on the United States/Mexican border. Based on gripping firsthand reports, this book investigates the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on those who labor in the agricultural fields and maquiladora factories on the border.


NAFTA in Transition

NAFTA in Transition

Author: Stephen J. Randall

Publisher: University of Calgary Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1895176638

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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic, social, cultural and political dimensions of the evolving trilateral relationship among the three countries of North America. Contributors address such topics as energy, the environment, trade, labour, the maquiladora industrial sector of Mexico, the Mexican auto industry, and Canada - U.S. cultural relations.While other publications have focused on U.S. issues, this one emphasizes Canada and Mexico, yet adds significantly to our understanding of the place of the United States in this evolving trilateral relationship.


NAFTA and Democracy in Mexico

NAFTA and Democracy in Mexico

Author: Pablo Calderón Martínez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1351110330

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After describing NAFTA as ‘the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere’, Donald Trump’s election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin for North American economic integration. Following a decade of stagnation, however, Trump’s victory presents a timely opportunity to reconsider North American integration and evaluate NAFTA’s democratic track record in Mexico. In this book, Pablo Calderón Martínez presents a detailed analysis of NAFTA’s influence as a political tool for democracy in Mexico. Extending beyond a mere economic or social exploration of the consequences of NAFTA, Calderón Martínez uses a three-tiered analysis based on causality mechanisms to explain how the interactions between internationalisation and democratisation unfolded in Mexico. Calderón Martínez’s analysis demonstrates that Mexico’s internationalisation project under the framework of NAFTA gave shape to, if not made, Mexico’s democratisation process. An original and timely resource for scholars and students interested in understanding how – in cases like Mexico where transitions to democracy are characterised by a finely poised balance of power – small influences from abroad can make significant long-lasting differences domestically.