North American Regionalism and Global Spread

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.

List of contents

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?

About the author

Author Imtiaz Hussain: Imtiaz Hussain is a professor of International Studies at Universidad Iberoamericana.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: R Dominguez, R. Dominguez, Roberto Dominguez, Hussain, I Hussain, I. Hussain, I. Dominguez Hussain
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2015
• EAN: 9781349505180
• ISBN: 978-1-349-50518-0
• No. of pages: 263
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Europa, B, Europe, European Politics, Political Science, Economics, International Relations, International Law, Private International Law, Economics, general, Conflict of Laws, comparative law, Political science and theory, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Palgrave Political Science Collection, Entertainment and media law, Information technology—Law and legislation, Mass media—Law and legislation