Post-NAFTA North America reshaping the economic and political governance of a changing region /

The author argues that in the post-9/11 era, North America is evolving from a primarily economic space to a strategic 'securitized' one and that NAFTA has been used by the US as a regulatory framework for dealing with the pressures of globalization that have emerged in the post-Cold War er...

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Main Authors: Morales, Isidro.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: International political economy series.
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230582859
Summary: The author argues that in the post-9/11 era, North America is evolving from a primarily economic space to a strategic 'securitized' one and that NAFTA has been used by the US as a regulatory framework for dealing with the pressures of globalization that have emerged in the post-Cold War era.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 256 p. : 22 figures, 7.
ISBN: 9780230517967
9780230582859 :
0230582850 :
CLC: F757.101
Contents: Post-NAFTA North America: Reshaping the Economic and Political Governance of a Changing Region PART I: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF REGIONAL DISCIPLINARYGOVERNANCE IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION The Challenges of Globalization for US Economic Leadership: The Nesting of Regionalism in Washington's Neoliberal Trade Agenda The Governance of Economic Openness through Trade Regimes: NAFTA as a Model of US Open Regionalism for the Americas PART II: THE POST-NAFTA NORTH-AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SPACE After NAFTA: Trade Regionalization and the Emergence of a North American Economic Space The Rise and Demise of Mexico's 'NAFTA-plus approach': The Scope and Limits of a North American Agenda Coming from the South PART III: RESHAPING THE GEO-POLITICAL SPACE OF NORTH AMERICA AND ITS CONTOURS Policing Borders in North America after September 11: From Barricaded Borders to the Growing Governmentalization of Human and Material Flows Post-NAFTA Deepening and Widening Trends: Towards the Continentalization of Energy Markets and the Enlargement of the Southern Periphery Conclusions References Notes.