Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Perspectives -- Introduction -- Geopolitical economy -- FTAS, statistics, and Korea -- Containment and South Korean development -- The Korean FTA strategy -- FTAs as development strategy -- FTA consequences -- The geopolitics of FTAs -- South Korea...

Total U.S. trade with NAFTA partners has increased 78 percent in real terms since 1993-U.S. Mexico trade alone is up 141 percent-compared to a 43 percent increase in U.S. trade with the rest of the world. In this article we compare the nature of U.S. trade growth with Canada and Mexico to growth...