Contentious Politics in North America

Contentious Politics in North America

Author: J. Ayres

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-04-08

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0230246893

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This is the only book of its kind devoted to exploring contentious politics from a North American perspective, including protests, social movements, transnational contention, and emergent regional governance processes, between Canadian, U.S. and Mexican state and civil society actors.


Post-NAFTA Political Economy

Post-NAFTA Political Economy

Author: Carol Wise

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780271044019

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An assessment of the impact of NAFTA on Mexico and its implications for the broadening of hemispheric economic cooperation.


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.


The Political Economy of Regionalism

The Political Economy of Regionalism

Author: Edward D. Mansfield

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780231106634

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Exploring regionalism from a political economic perspective, this text investigates why regional arrangements are formed, the conditions under which these arrangements solidify, and why they take on different institutional forms.


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.


The Political Economy of Trade Protection

The Political Economy of Trade Protection

Author: Anne O. Krueger

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0226455025

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This clear, concise summary of the in-depth analyses presented in The Political Economy of American Trade Policy examines the level, form, and evolution of American trade protection. In case studies of trade barriers imposed during the 1980s to help the steel, semiconductor, automobile, lumber, wheat, and textile and apparel industries, the contributors trace the evolution of efforts to obtain protection, protectionist measures, and their results. A chapter assessing the common themes that emerge from the studies concludes that the focus of current trade law is exclusively on the individual protection-seeking industries, with little regard for indirect effects on using industries or for consumers. Reform could usefully take these effects into account. This volume will interest policymakers, business executives, and anyone interested in trade policy formulation and practice.


Globalization And International Trade Policies

Globalization And International Trade Policies

Author: Robert M Stern

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2009-09-04

Total Pages: 794

ISBN-13: 9814477125

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This book brings together a collection of papers that Robert M Stern and his co-authors have written in recent years. The collection addresses a variety of issues pertinent to the global trading system. One group of papers deals with globalization in terms of what the public needs to know about this phenomenon and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whether some countries may be hurt by globalization, how global market integration relates to national sovereignty, and how and whether considerations of fairness are and should be dealt with in the global trading system and WTO negotiations. A second group of papers consists of analytical and computational modeling studies of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trading arrangements and negotiations from a global and national perspective for the United States and other major trading countries. The remaining papers include an empirical analysis of barriers to international services transactions and the consequences of liberalization, and issues of international trade and labor standards.


American Opinion on Trade

American Opinion on Trade

Author: Alexandra Guisinger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0190651830

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Introduction -- The changing landscape of trade and trade knowledge -- Trade preferences and politics -- Economic vulnerability, self-interest, and individual trade preferences -- Community and trade preferences -- Racial diversity and white Americans' support for trade protection -- The negative perceptions of trade's national effect -- Could positive information shift national level beliefs? -- Conclusions -- References


International Institutions and the Political Economy of Integration

International Institutions and the Political Economy of Integration

Author: Miles Kahler

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780815748229

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In this book, Miles Kahler examines both global and regional institutions and their importance in the world economy. Kahler explains the variation in these institutions and assesses the role they play in sustaining economic cooperation among nations.