Economic Integration in NAFTA and the EU: Deficient Institutionality

This text critically analyzes the institutions of the EU and NAFTA. It covers both the general problems of building new and integrated markets, and several policy areas that are related to economic integration. The institutions established in both Europe and America are seen as deficient in several respects: not only are the "side effects" on labour markets, social and environmental conditions considered inadequately addressed. Without offering adequate replacements, the book claims, the economic integration projects are actually undermining some of the core institutions that serve the needs of the market economies institutions upon the integration process itself depends.

Table of Contents:
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.Borr�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

About the Author :
SUSANA BORRAS ALOMAR Assistant Professor of Political Science, Roskilde University MARIA ELENA CARDERO Professor of Economics, Graduate Studies Department, Mexican National University ETELBERTO ORTIZ CRUZ Professor of Economics, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco BODIL DAMGAARD Research Professor, Latin American Faculty of Social Science, Mexico EDME DOMINGUEZ Political Scientist working at the Ibero-American Institute at the University of Gothenburg RUAL GARCIA-BARRIOS Researcher at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicos, Mexico RICARDO GRINSPUN Associate Professor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University, Toronto HANS KRAUSE HANSEN Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Culture at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School ROBERT KREKLEWICH Department of Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto SIMA MOTAMEN-SAMARIAN Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the University of Westminster ETELBERTO ORTIZ Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco MORTEN OUGAARD Senior Associate Professor of International Politics and Economics, Copenhagen Business School DORTE SALSKOV-IVERSEN Associate Professor of English Language and Culture, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business BLANCA TORRES Professor at the Centre for International Studies, El Colegio deMexico PEKKA VALTONEN Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Tampere, Finland