North American Regionalism and Global Spread

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. North American Economic Integration: State or Supranational Preferences?

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   Pages 1-12

3. North American Trade: Growth with Strings?

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   Pages 13-32

4. NAFTA and Foreign Direct Investment: Multilateralism Matters

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   Pages 33-48

5. NAFTA’s “Linchpin”: Dispute Settlement Mechanisms

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   Pages 49-72

6. NAFTA and Intellectual Property Rights: Regionally Strapped?

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   Pages 73-93

7. Environmental Side Agreement: Societal Sideshow?

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   Pages 95-111

8. NAFTA’s Side Agreement on Labor: Sidelined Forever?

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   Pages 113-128

9. NAFTA’s Intergovernmental Underbelly: Of Westphalian Whispers and Global Ghosts

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   Pages 129-143

10. Back Matter

    Pages 145-251

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Was the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) designed as a definitive trade agreement, or as a stepping stone? This book reviews NAFTA's performances on trade, investment, intellectual property rights, dispute-settlement, as well as environmental and labor side-agreements within a theoretical construct.

• desegregation
• government
• growth
• Intellectual Property
• Investment
• trade

• Boston, USA

  Imtiaz Hussain

• Philadelphia, USA

  Roberto Dominguez

Author Imtiaz Hussain: Imtiaz Hussain is a professor of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana.

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