A New North America - Cooperation and Enhanced Interdependence

This edited collection brings together a group of leading scholars to examine what North America might look like after NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Although the economic numbers for the three nations involved-Canada, Mexico, and the United States-are impressive, they do not tell the whole story. The real underlying question, according to these experts, is where is the North American region going? How strongly do Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. identify with the region? What strategies exist to propel North America into the 21st century? The authors divide their analysis into 2 parts: the first considers the perspective of each of the 3 countries towards the region and towards the problems they face in adapting to structural change; in the second, the analysis moves from present circumstances and expectations to strategy and options for strengthening the regional alliance.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Perspectives from Three Countries
The New Order and Disorder in U.S. - Mexican Relations by M. Delal Baer
The North American Free Trade Agreements: One Canadian's Perspective by A. Edward Safarian
NAFTA and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States by Alvin Paul Drischler
Policy Options and Enhanced Interdependence
When Building North America, Deepen Before Widening by Charles F. Doran
Social Policy in a North American Trade Area by Keith G. Banting
Theoretical Considerations of Emerging U.S.-Cooperation: The Case of the Parallel Accords by Rafael Fernandez de Castro and Claudia Ibarguen
Next Steps: Policy Options after NAFTA by Sidney Weintraub
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Charles F. Doran, Alvin Drischler

Product details

• Authors: Doran Charles F., Alvin Drischler
• Assisted by: Charles F. Doran (Editor), Alvin Paul Drischler (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.1996
• EAN: 9780275954079
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95407-9
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; USA, Mexico, Canada, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, International Relations, United States of America, USA, International Trade, International trade and commerce, Politics, Law, and Government: International Relations