El volumen presenta los resultados de una conferencia sobre la integracion comercial del hemisferio occidental, en la cual se dio un intercambio de perspectivas entre economistas y cientistas politicos latinoamericanos y canadienses sobre los diversos aspectos de los acuerdos comerciales en la...

The North American Free Trade Agreement has been misconceived, from its inception, as an economic agreement, but NAFTA's geopolitical and social importance go far beyond the economic sphere. This article contends that the NAFTA parties should address the social repercussions of economic...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Labor and Global Capitalism in North America, 1850-1970 -- 2. The Politics of Mexican Labor and Economic Development in Crisis -- 3. Mexican Labor and Workers' Rights under NAFTA and NAALC -- 4. Labor Mobility and...

Did 9/11 revive a North American guns-butter trade-off? Established in the largest administrative overhaul since World War II, the Department of Homeland Security was charged with keeping the United States safe within a wider security community, but confronted the Washington Consensus-based...

The creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) launched a new era of North American relations, an era in which the Canadian, Mexican and U.S. economies have become more closely integrated due to the rise in cross-border trade and investment in North America. Increased economic...

"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...