Post-NAFTA North America

Post-NAFTA North America uniquely combines an institutional examination of NAFTA with a geo-economic and geo-political approach. 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 utilized by the US as a regulatory framework for dealing with the pressures of globalization that have emerged in the post-Cold War era.

ISIDRO MORALES has been both professor and researcher in leading Mexican, American and European universities, including El Colegio de Mexico, the University of Denmark, the Watson Institute of Brown University, and the Center for North American Studies, American University, Washington DC. He was previously Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico. His research and writing focuses on integration and trade-related topics. He is currently Director of Public Policies and Government at EGAP, ITESM-Monterrey, Mexico.

Introduction * PART ONE: DISCIPLINARY GOVERNANCE WITHIN TRADE REGIMES * The Governance of Global Issues Through Regionalism: NAFTA as a Benchmark of US Open Regionalism in the Americas * NAFTA and the Governance of Institutional Convergence: The Scope and Limits of the Disciplinary Regime * PART TWO: THE POST-NAFTA ECONOMIC AND GEOPOLITICAL SPACE OF NORTH AMERICA * Reshaping the Post-NAFTA Economic Space: A Continental Hub with Two Spokes. The Loomin of a North American Periphery * The Post-NAFTA Geopolitical Space: Securing Borders, Trade and Critical Infrastructure * PART THREE: RESHAPING THE CONTOURS OF NORTH AMERICA * Deepening or Widening North America? The Ottowa-Washington Axis and the Hub and Spoke Approach of the US