Research Catalog

Title

North American regionalism and global spread / Imtiaz Hussain and Roberto Dominguez.

Author

Hussain, A. Imtiaz, 1953-

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dominguez, Roberto, 1967-

Description

xii, 251 pages; 23 cm

Summary

""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"--

Subjects

• Regionalism
• Free trade
• LAW / Intellectual Property / General
• Regionalism > North America
• International economic integration
• North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17)
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs
• Free trade > North America
• LAW / International
• North America > Economic integration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index.

Contents

1. North American Economic Integration: State or Supranational Preferences? -- 2. North American Trade: Growth with Strings? -- 3. NAFTA and Foreign Direct Investment: Multilateralism Matters -- 4. NAFTA's "Linchpin": Dispute Settlement Mechanisms -- 5. NAFTA and Intellectual Property Rights: Regionally Strapped? -- 6. Environmental Side Agreement: Societal Sideshow? -- 7. NAFTA's Side Agreement on Labor: Sidelined Forever? -- 8. NAFTA's Intergovernmental Underbelly: Of Westphalian Whispers and Global Ghosts.

Call Number

JBD 15-205

ISBN

• 9781137497918
• 1137497912

LCCN

• 2014034689
• 40024702671

OCLC

890360429

Author

Hussain, A. Imtiaz, 1953- author.

Title

North American regionalism and global spread / Imtiaz Hussain and Roberto Dominguez.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index.

Added Author

Dominguez, Roberto, 1967- author.

Other Standard Identifier

40024702671

Research Call Number

JBD 15-205