North American Regionalism and Global Spread [Hardcover]

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.1. North American Economic Integration: State versus Supranational Preferences? 2. North American Trade: Growth with Strings? 3. NAFTA and Foreign Direct Investment: Multilateralism Matters 4. NAFTA's "Lynchpin": 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 Inter-Governmental Underbelly: Westphalian Whispers?Author Imtiaz Hussain: Imtiaz Hussain is a professor of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana.