- Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction-- S.Bislev PART ONE: ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONALIZATION Institutions, Power Relations, and Unequal Integration in the Americas: NAFTA as Deficient Institutionality-- R.Grinspun and R.Kreklewich Free Trade and Local Institutions: the Case of Mexican Peasants-- R.Garcia-Barrios NAFTA, the EU, and Deficient Global Institutionality-- M.Ougaard PART TWO: ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND SOCIETAL INSTITUTIONS Economic Integration and the Construction of the Efficient Peasant-- H. Krause Hansen and K.Appendini Labour and Economic Integration-- B.Pedersen Environmental Co-operation before and after NAFTA-- B.Torres Constructing Europe: The Role of Social Solidarity-- S.Bislev and D.Salskov-Iversen The Europeanization of Politics in the Southern Members of the EU-- S.Borras PART THREE: UNBALANCED INTEGRATION IN AMERICA Regionalism: the Case of North America-- E.Dominguez The Challenges of Regionalism: Unbalance Integration in the Americas-- P.Valtonen Commercial Agreements Between Unequal Partners. Does NAFTA Deal with These Inequalities?-- M.Cardero Successful Integration and Economic Distress. The New Dual Economy, The Case of Mexico in NAFTA-- S.Motamen-Samadiam and E.Ortiz Cruz Index.
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The institutions of the EU and NAFTA are critically analyzed in this volume by seventeen American and European scholars. The book covers both the general problems of building new and integrated markets as well as several policy areas related to economic integration. The institutions established in both Europe and America are seen as deficient in several respects, and the essays go beyond superficial conclusions drawn in current comparative regionalism.
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This book offers a unique, authoritative and critical comparison of regional economic integration. It demonstrates that economic integration is not an automatic process - institutions must handle the integration process. This book argues that the institutions established in both Europe and America are deficient in several respects. Not only are the 'side effects' of free trade on labour markets and social and environmental conditions inadequately addressed, the economic integration projects are actually undermining some of the core institutions that serve the needs of the market economies - institutions upon which the integration process itself depends. In the existing literature on comparative regionalism there has been a tendency to draw superficial conclusions. Americans have been overly optimistic about the significance of EU Treaty provisions on the social dimension and subsidiarity, and Europeans have seen the simplicity of NAFTA's institutional framework as a smart solution to the burdensome bureaucracy of Brussels. The reality, however, is much more complex. This volume contains a number of critical analyses of the aims of both the EU and NAFTA, the institutional instruments chosen, and the influence of politics, history and culture.
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