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Abstract
""The book by Hussain and Dominguez provides a thorough, comprehensive, and insightful assessment of the extent to which the three North American countries engage in trilateral activities and/or continue to rely on bilateral or unilateral interaction methods. Evidence on how NAFTA's actual provisions hold up in practice is based on a number of case studies drawn from trade, environment and institutional/administrative arrangements. The book offers valuable lessons for regional integration and multilateral undertakings elsewhere in the world. This wide-ranging and penetrating analysis of inter-state relations within NAFTA deserves a wide readership among practitioners and scholars alike." - Emil J. Kirchner, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Essex, UK "This book is a timely assessment of the achievements of NAFTA after 20 years. The theoretical approach is enlightening and the analysis constitutes a realistic realty-check with focus on NAFTA's limitations and various turns to bilateralism. A must read for scholars of regional integration and citizens interested in changes in the global political economy." - Finn Laursen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Was the NAFTA experiment a means to other goals for Canada, Mexico, and the United States, or an end in itself? This twenty-year study of trade and investment, dispute settlement and intellectual property rights, and the environment and labor finds all three North American countries are pursuing alternate initiatives independently, many of their thrusts streamlining with globalizing forces, and just as many strengthening Westphalian statism. Those findings caution against overly optimistic and deepening integrative arguments, invite exogenous dynamics like security considerations to mix and mingle with endogenous (or NAFTA-based) counterparts, and stop safely short of die-hard integrative opponents while opening pathways for both theoretical and empirical reassessments"--
Cover -- North American Regionalism and Global Spread -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: North American Economic Integration: State or Supranational Preferences? -- Setting -- "North American" Upswing -- "North American" Downswings -- Integration versus Interdependence -- A NAFTA Theoretical Test -- 2: North American Trade: Growth with Strings? -- Introduction -- Objectives and Institutions -- Relevant NAFTA Chapter 3 Provisions -- NAFTA Chapters Impacting Trade -- Rules of Origin -- Government Procurement -- Trade in Energy-based Goods -- State Monopolies -- Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards -- Standards-related Measures -- Exemptions -- North American Trade Performances -- Canada-United States -- Canada-Mexico -- Mexico-United States -- Overview of Main Sectors -- Automotive -- Agriculture -- Energy -- Post-NAFTA North American Trade Evaluation -- Conclusion: Each Theory a Winner? -- 3: NAFTA and Foreign Direct Investment: Multilateralism Matters -- Introduction -- Objectives and Institutions: Chapter 11 -- National Treatment -- MFN Treatment -- Minimum Standard of Treatment -- Performance Requirements -- Compensations and Expropriations -- North American FDI Performance -- FDI and the United States -- FDI and Canada -- FDI and Mexico -- FDI in Key Sectors: Cases -- Conclusion: Theoretical Fitting -- 4: NAFTA's "Linchpin": Dispute Settlement Mechanisms -- Background -- Dispute Settlement Institutional Designs: A Comparative Overview -- Broadly Identifying Dispute Settlement Arrangements -- Whitewashing or Eliminating Problems? -- Legal Foundation: Battle of the Policy-making Levels -- Institution-building -- Principles/Purposes/Provisions -- Governance -- Nature of Compliance -- Exit Option -- Summary -- Performances -- Mechanism-specific Highlights -- Chapter 11: Investment the Supranational Torchbearer?
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