NAFTA's 15 Year Itch -- North American Economic Integration in Theoretical Context: Neofunctionalism or nonfunctional? -- Investment: Sticky Fingers? -- NAFTA's Dispute-Settlement Mechanism: Designs, 15-Year Performances, Comparisons -- NAFTA and Intellectual Property Rights -- Increasing NAFTA Trade Trends: Incidental or Institutional? -- Pooling Empirical Observations: NAFTA an Integrative Mirage? -- Players Under the Microscope -- Conclusions and Implications
Summary
"Reevaluating NAFTA" seeks to answer the question: has NAFTA integrated North America? A fifteen-year NAFTA appraisal finds trade expansion boosting optimism, but also unveils stark asymmetry between developed and developing countries as well as top-heavy NAFTA regulations seriously constraining ground-level integration. Using empirical data analysis and a wide-reaching theoretical context, this book seeks to evaluate the results of NAFTA's 'fifteen-year itch' to identify what worked and what didn't, and ultimately, to point to the future of North American integration
