CONTENTS

Introduction

1. The North American idea

2. What the NAFTA is (and is not)

3. North America as region

4. New ground broken and (mixed?) results

5. Much ado about foreign direct investment

6. Governance in the NAFTA, or lack thereof?

7. Labour and the environment

8. NAFTA 2.0: did the USMCA modernize anything?

Appendix 1: spaghetti bowl of commitments by the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership signatories

Appendix 2: US trade in goods and services with NAFTA partners, 1989–2017

References

Index