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What Trump Gets Wrong About NAFTA

25 years after NAFTA was negotiated, the economic impact of the trade deal is far more ambiguous and significantly less interesting than its political impact.

Jefferson Cowie

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NAFTA May 4, 2017 Snapshot

What Trump Gets Wrong About NAFTA

25 years after NAFTA was negotiated, the economic impact of the trade deal is far more ambiguous and significantly less interesting than its political impact.

Jefferson Cowie

NAFTA Jun 28, 2016 Snapshot

Advantage, America

U.S. President Barack Obama will meet his Canadian and Mexican counterparts in Ottawa for the tenth North American Leaders’ Summit. The summit represents an...

Tom Donilon

Demonstrators wave flags of Mexico and the United States and cheer at a planned protest near downtown San Diego, California, May 1, 2006.

Economic Development January/February 2014 Essay

NAFTA's Mixed Record

Twenty years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into effect, the deal has brought neither the huge gains its proponents promised nor the dramatic...

Jorge G. Castañeda

NAFTA January/February 2014 Essay

NAFTA's Unfinished Business

Although the North American Free Trade Agreement succeeded in liberalizing trade, over the 20 years since the treaty entered into force, it has failed to deepen links...

Michael Wilson

From the Archives January/February 2014 Essay

NAFTA's Economic Upsides

In the 20 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement entered into force, the agreement has proved to be an economic boon. But if North America is to remain a...

Carla A. Hills

Global Institutions January/February 2014 Essay

The Unruled World

International cooperation is increasingly taking place outside formal institutions, as frustrated actors turn to informal groups and ad hoc venues. The resulting...

Stewart Patrick

Economic Development March/April 2013 Essay

Mexico Makes It

Even as Mexico continues to struggle with grave security threats, its steady rise is transforming the country's economy, society, and political system. Given Mexico's...

Shannon K. O'Neil

Regional Organizations July 1949 Essay

Military Organization Under the Atlantic Pact

George Fielding Eliot

Regional Organizations April 1949 Essay

Canada and the North Atlantic Alliance

Lester B. Pearson

Trade July/August 2008 Essay

The Future of North America

It's time to integrate further with Canada and Mexico, not separate from them.

Robert A. Pastor

Trade January/February 2004 Essay

North America's Second Decade

In just ten years, NAFTA has created the world's most formidable free trade area. But in the absence of true partnerships and multilateral institutions, movement...

Robert A. Pastor

Economics July/August 2001 Comment

Finding Allies in the Back Yard: NAFTA and the Southern Cone

With so many players involved, the eagerly anticipated Free Trade Area of the Americas is likely to wind up a shallow project. A better way to jump-start hemispheric...

Felipe A.M. de la Balze

NAFTA July/August 1999 Essay

Mexico's Coming Backlash

Americans like to take the stability of their southern NAFTA partner for granted. But while things are going well in Mexico, a backlash is brewing. The end of one...

M. Delal Baer

Economics November/December 1993 Comment

The Uncomfortable Truth about NAFTA: It's Foreign Policy, Stupid

For the United States, the benefits of NAFTA are minimal but real. What the trade agreement is really about is helping a friendly and important neighbor.

Paul Krugman

Economics November/December 1993 Comment

NAFTA: Myths versus Facts

Exaggerated claims and charges are obscuring the facts about the North American Free Trade Agreement. Over time, in almost every instance, what's good for Mexico would...

William A. Orme, Jr.

Economics September/October 1993 Essay

Can NAFTA Change Mexico?

The Salinas regime has ardently pursued the North American Free Trade Agreement as a silver bullet to kill myriad political and economic problems. But NAFTA as it...

Jorge G. Castañeda

Economics Spring 1993 Essay

California's Foreign Policy

California is the most populous state in the United States. Its gross economic product is seventh in the world, well ahead of China or Canada. Given its massive size...

James O. Goldsborough

Economics America and the World 1992 Essay

Latin America: Ready for Partnership?

Latin American countries have taken giant strides toward institutionalizing democracy, market economics and hemispheric community. However, widespread dissatisfaction...

Abraham F. Lowenthal

Labor Fall 1991 Essay

North American Free Trade

A new continentalism took hold on February 5, 1991, when the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States announced they would negotiate a North American Free Trade...

M. Delal Baer

Trade Summer 1991 Essay

The Caribbean in the 21st Century

"Driven primarily by security interests, the United States has often oscillated between intervention to prevent a foreign rival from gaining a foothold and neglect...

Robert Pastor and Richard Fletcher

Central America Caribbean - Foreign Affairs

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