The Enterprise for the Americas Initiative: Issues and Prospects for a Free Trade Agreement in the Western Hemisphere

by Roy E. Green

Overview

This collection of orchestrated analyses develops an issues and process framework for assessing the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative to develop freer trade within the Western Hemisphere. This volume comes at a time of transition in U.S. domestic politics and global trade negotiations. Anticipating the critical choices to be faced by the Clinton administration, as well as other public and private sector leaders here and abroad, the analyses in the volume, written by a team of leading international trade and economic development specialists, will provide the reader with insights into the complex political, economic, social, and, to some extent, technical character of efforts to expand regional and world trade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275942663
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/10/1993
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

ROY E. GREEN is the President of REG Management Resource Group, and an Adjunct Research Professor at The George Washington University. Previously, he taught public administration at the University of Colorado-Denver, the University of Oregon, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of The Profession of Local Government Management (Praeger, 1989), and the editor of and a contributor to Enterprise Zones: New Directions in Economic Development (1991).

Table of Contents

Introduction by Roy E. Green
Global Trade and Regional Economic Development
The Free Trade Debate by Patrick Low
Liberalizing Trade in the Western Hemisphere: Where Do We Want to Go, and How Do We Get There? by Ronald J. Wonnacott
The Canada-U.S. FTA and the Laboratory of the Mexican, U.S., and Canadian NAFTA Negotiations
The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Canadian Perspective by Murray G. Smith
A U.S. Perspective on the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement by Arlene E. Wilson
A Mexican Assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: Issues and Prospects by Carlos Alba Vega
Trade Liberalization and the Lessons of the Mexican Maquiladora Program by Randall Crane
The Evolving Experience along the Pacific Northwest Corridor Called Cascadia by Michael A. Goldberg and Maurice D. Levi
Keys to a Free Trade Zone in the Western Hemisphere: History, Opportunity, Motivation, and Timing
The Rocky Road toward Hemispheric Economic Integration: A Regional Background with Attention to the Future by Joseph Grunwald
The Enterprise for the Americas Initiative: Empty Gesture, Shrewd Strategic Gambit, or Remarkable Shift in Hemispheric Relations? by Joseph S. Tulchin
The North American Free Trade Negotiating Track: Agenda Setting for the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative
Argentina, the Southern Common Market, and the Prospects for Success of the EAI by Roberto Bouzas
The Chilean Perception of the Americas Initiative by Mladen Yopo H.
An Analysis of Colombian Reactions to the EAI: Prospects for Success by Mauricio Reina and Gladys Cristina Barrera
Selected Bibliography
Index