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Book The Political Economy of a North American Free Trade Agreement

Download or read book The Political Economy of a North American Free Trade Agreement written by Alan Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Political Economy of North American Free Trade

Download or read book The Political Economy of North American Free Trade written by Ricardo Grinspun and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Toward A North American Community

Download or read book Toward A North American Community written by Donald Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a milestone in the affairs of the continent and in international trade. The first formal arrangement of any kind between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, it is also the first trade pact including countries of such disproportionate power and levels of development. For Canada and Mexico the agr

Book The North American Free Trade Agreement

Download or read book The North American Free Trade Agreement written by Marc Grezlikowski and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: USA, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: In the wake of globalization, many countries are reducing trade barriers and tariffs, resulting in a rise of free-trade areas in which the participating countries trade freely among each other without any restrictions. The goal of these agreements is the increase of wealth in each nation's economy. To reach this goal, the USA, Canada and Mexico negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which came into effect on January, 1st 1994. It was the world's largest free-trade area with a combined population of over 360m people and a total GDP of 6$ trillion. Today, the NAFTA area comprises a 12.5$ trillion economy and a 430m strong population. For the first time, two highly industrialized, rich countries affiliated themselves with a poorer, newly industrialized country. At the time of its ratification, the agreement was extremely controversial in all three member states and opinions in political camps differed vastly. Supporters of the contract were mostly big companies and investors who were hoping that it would loosen restrictions and barriers on the capital market. Opponents of the agreement were trade unions which, especially in the United States, railed heavily against it. They feared outsourcing and massive job displacements to Mexico, a country in which labor is incredibly cheap and environment protection laws are lax or do not even exist. In Mexico, landowners were skeptical of NAFTA because they feared unfair competition with US-American farmers who are still to this day greatly subsidized by the government.

Book Community  Diffusion    North American Expansiveness

Download or read book Community Diffusion North American Expansiveness written by Imtiaz Hussain and published by Universidad Iberoamericana. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contentious Politics in North America

Download or read book Contentious Politics in North America written by J. Ayres and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Votes  Vetoes  and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements

Download or read book Votes Vetoes and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements written by Edward D. Mansfield and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. These agreements foster economic integration among member states by enhancing their access to one another's markets. Yet despite the importance of PTAs to international trade and world politics, until now little attention has been focused on why governments choose to join them and how governments design them. This book offers valuable new insights into the political economy of PTA formation. Many economists have argued that the roots of these agreements lie in the promise they hold for improving the welfare of member states. Others have posited that trade agreements are a response to global political conditions. Edward Mansfield and Helen Milner argue that domestic politics provide a crucial impetus to the decision by governments to enter trade pacts. Drawing on this argument, they explain why democracies are more likely to enter PTAs than nondemocratic regimes, and why as the number of veto players--interest groups with the power to block policy change--increases in a prospective member state, the likelihood of the state entering a trade agreement is reduced. The book provides a novel view of the political foundations of trade agreements.

Book North American Free Trade Agreement  NAFTA

Download or read book North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NAFTA Now

Download or read book NAFTA Now written by Brenda M. McPhail and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of nine essays includes works by noted authorities in the fields of academia, business, and government. They analyze the agreement and its political, economic and socio-cultural effects. Each author draws on a unique background, with authors coming from the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The collection includes views from both supporters and critics of the agreement. The NAFTA has provoked much debate and raised many difficult questions. While there are no easy answers to these questions, these engaging essays provide us with a coherent and comprehensive perspective to help the reader become better informed. Co-published with the Harvard Center for International Studies. Contributors: Brenda McPhail, Sidney Weintraub, Virginia Druhe, Remi L. Wrona, Neil Nevitte, Miguel Basanez, Elaine Bernard, Mildred A. Schwartz, Christopher Gutierrez, Daniel "Duke" McVey.

Book Our North America

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  • Author : Julián Castro Rea
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1409438740
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Our North America written by Julián Castro Rea and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores various aspects of the key relationships between Canada, Mexico and the United States. This book addresses such issues as Indigenous peoples, epistemic communities, security, migration, civil societies, democracy, identities and culture.

Book Post NAFTA Political Economy

Download or read book Post NAFTA Political Economy written by Carol Wise and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the impact of NAFTA on Mexico and its implications for the broadening of hemispheric economic cooperation.

Book North American Economic Integration

Download or read book North American Economic Integration written by Norris C. Clement and published by Cheltenham [England] : Edward Elgar Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a larger project funded by the US Information Agency's University Affiliation Program, Canadian, US, and Mexican economists explain the North American Free Trade Agreement to readers who understand the basic principles of economics. They consider how and why it emerged in the early 1990s and its performance since implementation, the economic development and commercial policy of each member country in the context of the global economy, the pact's technical strengths and limitation, and ongoing debates. They argue that it has introduced social and environmental innovations in trade agreements, but provides a less than perfect approach to managing the continent's economic integration. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book NAFTA as a Model of Development

Download or read book NAFTA as a Model of Development written by Richard S. Belous and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines whether NAFTA will produce increased or decreased wages in the regional trading blocs emerging in Europe, North America, and East Asia as a result of its uniting of high and low wage areas and identifies the winners and losers in various labor markets.

Book The Political Economy of American Trade Policy

Download or read book The Political Economy of American Trade Policy written by Anne O. Krueger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-02-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eight parallel analytical histories of the automobile, steel, semiconductor, lumber, wheat, and textile and apparel industries, the contributors demonstrate that trade barriers rarely have unequivocal benefits and may indeed be counterproductive in the long run. They also find that the political and administrative criteria for awarding protection do not take into account the interests of final consumers, other American industries, or foreign countries.

Book Free Trade and the Power Asymmetry Between the United States and Canada

Download or read book Free Trade and the Power Asymmetry Between the United States and Canada written by Timo Metzner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien), course: Proseminar "Politics in North America: A Comparative Perspective", language: English, abstract: This paper will address the question what strategic goals stood behind the promotion and implementation of free trade between the United States and Canada. The purpose is to evaluate the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in respect to the objectives of both parties that were not commonly shared in the beginning. It is about the consequences of power imbalance for regional free trade and not about the social costs that are intensively discussed and certainly heavily felt in both countries. Since the view of a power asymmetry that exists between the two countries should be rather uncontested, the central idea of the following text is to examine in detail at which points this has shaped the content of the two agreements. This approach is inspired by the broader question, whose interests free trade serves in general. An important rhetoric strategy of promoters of the neo-liberal agenda is to suggest that the free play of market forces encouraged by such agreements gives all participants the same fair opportunities to engage in trade without intervention from governments. Consequently, all members of the distinct community will benefit from freer trade. For it is rather clear that power and national interests always play a role in politics - in this case in the processes leading to free trade agreements - it shall be demonstrated how this works in particular.