In 1994, two political events occurred that would have been
inconceivable just five years before: the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) was launched, and Republicans took control of the
U.S. Congress for the first time in 40 years. NAFTA aimed to bind
the three North American economies after more than a century in
which Mexico and Canada had struggled to keep their distance from
the United States. Ironically, at the very moment that Canada and
Mexico risked a closer embrace, a new inward-looking U.S. Congress
took office, less sensitive to neighbors or international
obligations. Concerned Mexicans and Canadians asked: Was it
possible to advance NAFTA's goals if the U.S. Congress stepped on
the brakes?
This book looks at the NAFTA integration process by focusing on
the U.S. Congress. More independent and influential than the
Canadian Parliament or Mexican legislature, the U.S. Congress seeks
to shape the river banks within which North American integration
runs its course, but often it just dams the river. The book
presents the work of scholars from Mexico, Canada, and the United
States who propose changes in congressional policymaking in order
to facilitate a smoother and deeper process of integration within
North America.
The chapter authors are I. M. Destler, Neil Nevitte, Kim Richard
Nossal, Miguel Basa?ez, Norman J. Ornstein, and George W.
Grayson.
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