The author argues that in the post-9/11 era, North America is evolving from a primarily economic space to a strategic 'securitized' one and that NAFTA has been used by the US as a regulatory framework for dealing with the pressures of globalization that have emerged in the post-Cold War era.

Autorentext
ISIDRO MORALES has been both professor and researcher in leading Mexican, American and European universities, including El Colegio de Mexico, the University of Denmark, the Watson Institute of Brown University, and the Center for North American Studies, American University, Washington DC. He was previously Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico. His research and writing focuses on integration and trade-related topics. He is currently Professor at Monterrey-Tech, Santa Fe campus, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Inhalt
Post-NAFTA North America: Reshaping the Economic and Political Governance of a Changing Region PART I: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF REGIONAL DISCIPLINARYGOVERNANCE IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION The Challenges of Globalization for US Economic Leadership: The Nesting of Regionalism in Washington's Neoliberal Trade Agenda The Governance of Economic Openness through Trade Regimes: NAFTA as a Model of US Open Regionalism for the Americas PART II: THE POST-NAFTA NORTH-AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SPACE After NAFTA: Trade Regionalization and the Emergence of a North American Economic Space The Rise and Demise of Mexico's 'NAFTA-plus approach': The Scope and Limits of a North American Agenda Coming from the South PART III: RESHAPING THE GEO-POLITICAL SPACE OF NORTH AMERICA AND ITS CONTOURS Policing Borders in North America after September 11: From Barricaded Borders to the Growing Governmentalization of Human and Material Flows Post-NAFTA Deepening and Widening Trends: Towards the Continentalization of Energy Markets and the Enlargement of the Southern Periphery Conclusions References Notes