Requiem or revival? : the promise of North American integration / Isabel Studer, Carol Wise, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Studer-Noguez, Isabel, 1963-

Wise, Carol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free trade--North America.

Free trade.

North America--Economic integration.

North America.

North America--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Within NAFTA, explores interactions between regionalism and multilateralism, the impact of the "new trade" agenda, and unresolved problems--migration, security, and energy. Discusses NAFTA's relationship to the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas negotiations and the Doha Development Round and various ways in which NAFTA could be revamped or improved"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. No turning back : trade integration and the new development mandate / Carole Wise

Part I, The North American Free Trade Area : Achievements and Limitations. 2. Unfulfilled promise : economic convergence under NAFTA / Carol Wise

3. Obstacles to integration : NAFTA's institutional weakness / Isabel Studer

4. Trade negotiations among NAFTA partners : the future of North American economic integration / Jeffrey J. Schott

Part II, The Hemispheric Context : From NAFTA to the Free Trade Area of the Americas. 5. Beyond the FTAA : perspectives for hemispheric integration / Jaime Zabludovsky and Sergio Gomez Lora

6. The FTAA stalemate : implications for Canadian foreign policy / Gordon Mace

7. What went wrong? Brazil, the United States, and the FTAA / Glauco Oliveira

Part III, The Global Context : The New Trade Agenda and the Doha Round. 8. The Doha Round : problems, challenges, and prospects / Theodore H. Cohn

9. U.S. trade politics during the Doha Round / I. M. Destler

10. Mexico in the multilateral trading system : a long and winding road / Antonio Ortiz Mena L. N.

Part IV, Beyond Trade : Energy, Migration, and North American Integration. 11. The politics of energy markets in North America : challenges and prospects for a continental partnership / Isidro Morales

12. International energy security and North America / Charles F. Doran

13. North American immigration : the search for positive-sum returns / Tamara M. Woroby

14. Migration and citizenship rights in a new North American space / Christina Gabriel and Laura MacDonald.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611029708

9781281029706

128102970X

9780815782001

0815782004

OCLC:

780140717