NAFTA and Democracy in Mexico: A Successful Failure?
Pablo Calderón Martínez, "NAFTA and Democracy in Mexico: A Successful Failure? "
English | ISBN: 0815363176 | 2018 | 176 pages | EPUB | 1133 KB
English | ISBN: 0815363176 | 2018 | 176 pages | EPUB | 1133 KB
After describing NAFTA as ‘the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere’, Donald Trump’s election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin for North American economic integration. Following a decade of stagnation, however, Trump’s victory presents a timely opportunity to reconsider North American integration and evaluate NAFTA’s democratic track record in Mexico.
In this book, Pablo Calderón Martínez presents a detailed analysis of NAFTA’s influence as a political tool for democracy in Mexico. Extending beyond a mere economic or social exploration of the consequences of NAFTA, Calderón Martínez uses a three-tiered analysis based on causality mechanisms to explain how the interactions between internationalisation and democratisation unfolded in Mexico. Calderón Martínez’s analysis demonstrates that Mexico’s internationalisation project under the framework of NAFTA gave shape to, if not made, Mexico’s democratisation process.
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