What's the Matter with Nafta
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NAFTA is a so-called "free trade agreement" between the US, Canada and Mexico which is modeled on the existing Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The Canada-U.S. deal consists of approximately 300 pages of text, indexes, schedules and appendices and the NAFTA which will supersede it is over 1,000 pages. To be perfectly accurate, neither agreement is a "free trade" agreement -but rather a combination of new corporate protections, tariff reductions and new complex trade reregulation. I prefer to refer to it as a "so-called" free trade agreement because the term "free trade" is, of course, an ideologically loaded term. How can anybody be against "free trade" -in theory at least? How can anyone be against increasing economic cooperation and trade among nations? How could we be against countries working out an international division of labor based on their respective "comparative advantages" -with each choosing to specialize in what they do best with what their environment and resources equip them for?
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What's the matter with realism?
Review of International Studies / Volume 16 / Issue 04 / October 1990, pp 285 303 DOI: 10.1017/S0260210500112379, Published online: 26 October 2009 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0260210500112379 How to cite this article: Justin Rosenberg (1990). What's the matter with realism?. Review of International Studies, 16, pp 285-303 doi:10.1017/S0260210500112379 Request ...
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