The Impacts of NAFTA on North America : Challenges Outside the Box

Why was NAFTA not extended, even after fulfilling several stated objectives? Investigating a number of roadblocks (balancing regional and multilateral environmental obligations, migration and refugee spillovers, synchronizing federal, state, and local investment laws, societal transnationalism over education, for instance, sociological/anthropological concerns over transformations at the local level, gender relations, and the impacts of the 2008 recession and H1N1 pandemic), several scholars elevate the growing but neglected importance of parallel intra-state and transnational dynamics demanding attention. Utilizing James Rosenau’s state-multi-centric models, their conclusions/implications shed light not just why North American integration is not working, but on broader regional experiments. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction: Beneath, Beyond, or Within North America’s Regional Box: Paradigm Indigestion?....Pages 1-19 North America’s Regionalisms Face Globalism: Integrating Climate Change Responses....Pages 21-37 Mexico-Canada Biotech Image: The Role of the Broader Scientific Community....Pages 39-62 North American Anti-Immigration Rhetorics: Continental Circulation and Global Resonance of Discursive Integration....Pages 63-91 Integration through NAFTA’s Chapter 11: Eroding Federalism and Regionalism?....Pages 93-105 Thick Borders and the Challenge of North American Policy Coordination Post-Bush: What’s Next?....Pages 107-122 Three Amigos and a Nonregional Player: China as a Challenge Inside and Outside the NAFTA Box....Pages 123-140 Natural Resources and Out-Migration in Local Communities of Southern Mexico: Non-NAFTA Issues Impacting NAFTA....Pages 141-158 Gendering NAFTA: Utopian Vision?....Pages 159-180 Developing National and International Civic Engagement Networks: The International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy....Pages 181-207 North American Integration and Recession: Paradigm Change?....Pages 209-236 The 2009 H1N1 Outbreak: A Chaotic North American Trigger with Evolving Global Consequences....Pages 237-251 Conclusion: Rising to the Occasion: Coordinating Tumult....Pages 253-258 Back Matter....Pages 259-273 Beneath, Beyond, or Within North America's Regional Box: Paradigm Indigestion? North America's Regionalisms Face Globalism: Integrative Climate Change Responses-- M.Lopez Vallejo Olvera Mexico-Canada Biotech Image: The Role of the Broader Scientific Community-- E.Antal& C.Tigau North American Anti-Immigration Rhetoric: Continental Circulation and Global Resonance of Discursive Integration-- L.Gilbert Integration through NAFTA's Chapter XI: Eroding Federalism and Regionalism?-- I.McKinley Thick Borders and the Challenge of North American Policy Coordination Post-Bush: What's Next?-- D.Drache Three Amigos and a Non-Regional Player: China as a Challenge Inside and Outside the NAFTA Box-- F.Haro Natural Resources and Out-Migration in Local Communities of Southern Mexico: Non-NAFTA Issues Impacting NAFTA-- A.Gonzalez Jacome Gendering NAFTA: Utopian Vision?-- R.Villanueva Ulfgard Developing National and International Civic Engagement Networks: The International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy-- F.Plantan, Jr. North American Integration and Recession: Changing Order?-- I.Hussain The 2009 H1N1 Outbreak: A Chaotic North American Trigger with Evolving Global Consequences-- T.Lynch& P.M.Cox Conclusions: Rising to the Occasion: Coordinating Tumult Why was NAFTA not extended, even after fulfilling several stated objectives? Investigating a number of roadblocks and utilizing James Rosenau's state-multi-centric models, the book's conclusions shed light not just on why North American integration is not working, but on broader regional experiments.