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The Nafta Investment Chapter And Foreign Direct Investment In Mexico: A Third World Perspective, Gloria L. Sandrino
The Nafta Investment Chapter And Foreign Direct Investment In Mexico: A Third World Perspective, Gloria L. Sandrino
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The investment provisions of NAFTA, which establish a liberal investment regime and a hospitable atmosphere for foreign investment amongst its signatories, the United States, Canada, and Mexico, represents a new chapter in Mexico's approach to foreign investment. This Article examines the significance of Mexico's shift to welcoming foreign investment and its concomitant acquiescence to traditional notions of expropriation and compensation espoused by more developed states. The author explores Mexico's historical love-hate relationship with foreign investment and its role over the years as leading voice for Third World concerns regarding the potentially exploitive nature of such investment. In this article, a …
Carbbean Basin Initiative: Ten Years Of Trade Preference, James E. Stamps
Carbbean Basin Initiative: Ten Years Of Trade Preference, James E. Stamps
Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy
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The Mexican Market And Nafta, Rebecca Reynolds Bannister
The Mexican Market And Nafta, Rebecca Reynolds Bannister
Seattle University Law Review
In the face of European integration and strategic partnerships in the Pacific Rim, it is vitally important for the United States to strengthen our ties with our North American commercial partners and with the rest of the Western Hemisphere. NAFTA is an historic agreement. It is an ambitious effort to eliminate barriers to agricultural, manufacturing, and services trade, to remove investment restrictions, and to protect intellectual property rights. And, NAFTA is the first agreement in the history of U.S. trade policy that directly addresses envi- ronmental concerns. United States' strategic policy must be focused on that which builds security for …
Free Trade As An Extremist Ideology: The Case Of Nafta, Robert W. Benson
Free Trade As An Extremist Ideology: The Case Of Nafta, Robert W. Benson
Seattle University Law Review
This article purports that free tradism has become such a classic extremist ideology, just as, until recently, Marxism-Leninism was. Free tradism is fairly described as fitting the two criteria that characterize extremist ideologies: (1) their adherents are oblivious to cognitive dissonance contradicting their analyses, and (2) their adherents are willing to plunge themselves and others into great risks in the name of the ideology. This article adduces evidence in these two categories, using NAFTA as an example, analyzing concrete issues of trade theory, jobs, the environment, human rights, and democracy.
Preface, Geoffrey R. Watson
Preface, Geoffrey R. Watson
Seattle University Law Review
This issue includes one article from each panel: Professor Clarke's article on whether China should become a member of the GATT, Professor Benson's article on NAFTA as "extremist ideology," Mr. Kawachi's article on securitization in Japan, and Professor Green's article on MFN status for China. In addition, the editors have included a spirited defense of NAFTA by Ms. Rebecca Reynolds Bannister. To set the stage, I offer a few comments on each article below.