The Wirth Trinational Library

A selection of texts available at NAMI's Santa Fe offices.

NORTH AMERICA | US & MEXICO | MEXICO | US & CANADA | CANADA | NAFTA/FREE TRADE | ENVIRONMENT

AUTHOR TITLE PUBLISHER ISBN NUMBER PAGES COPIES DESCRIPTION
             
Abbott, Jeffrey D. and Robert Moran Uniting North American Business: NAFTA Best Practices Butterworth Heinmann. San Diego; 2002 ISBN: 0-87719-384-3 (pbk.: alk paper) 221 pages 1 copy In today's global economy, NAFTA continues to present unprecedented opportunities for companies in cross-border commerce. Uniting North American Business: NAFTA Best Practices focuses on best business practices and lessons learned in the years since the NAFTA agreement was first signed, and their impact on both economy and society.
             
Arriola, Carlos. Compilador Testimonios sobre el TLC Miguel Angel Porrua. San Angel; 1994 ISBN: 968-842-426-9 294 pages 1 copy Making NAFTA Work contains a wealth of information on how corporations are adapting to the reality of North American economic integration.
             
Ayres, Jeffrey M Defying Conventional Wisdom: Political Movements and popular contention against North American Free Trade University of Toronto Press. Toronto; 1998 ISBN: 0-8020-8089-8 (pbk); ISBN: 0-8020-4246-5 (cloth) 209 pages 1 copy This book contains many writings by Mexican authors on issues surrounding NAFTA.
             
Blank, Stephen and Jerry Haar Making NAFTA Work: U.S. Firms and the New North American Business Environment North-South Center Press. Boulder; 1998 ISBN: 1-57454-047-5 112 pages 1 copy This book captures an important developmental period in Canadian political life, as it is the first major work on the origins, strategies, and activities of movements and coalitions that arose in Canada and spread across North America to oppose free trade.
             
Cushing, Robert G. et al. Ed The Challenge of NAFTA: North America, Australia, New Zealand and the World Trade Regime Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian Studies. Austin 1993 ISBN:0-89940-427-8 377 pages 1 copy The Challenge of NAFTA explores various dimensions of the agreement's effects on the world trading community--particularly third-country trading partners such as Australia and New Zealand.

A volume in the Tom Slick World Peace Series
             
Cameron, Maxwell A., Tomlin, Brian W. The Making of NAFTA: How the Deal was Done Cornell University Press. Ithaca and London; 2000. ISBN: 0-8014-3800-4 (cloth :alk. Paper); ISBN: 0-8014-881-1 (pbk.: alk paper) 264 pages 1 copy Written in an engaging and accessible style, The Making of NAFTA is a faithful account, built on insider views, of how the representatives of Canada, Mexico, and the United States prepared for, negotiated, and implemented the agreement.
             
Dawson, Laura Ritchie. Ed Whose Rights? The NAFTA Chapter 11 Debate Centre for Trade Policy and Law. Ottawa; 2002 ISBN: 1-896871-21-6 217 pages 1 copy Through various papers and commentary that emerged from a conference held by the Centre for Trade Policy and Law in 2002, specialists from the fields of law, government and academia provide insight and analysis to the debates surrounding the controversial NAFTA Chapter 11.
             
Deck, Linda P. NAFTA Trade Dependency: The Ramifications, Solutions and Guidebook for NAFTA Family Members Page Masters Inc. Greenfield 1998 ISBN: 0-9666164-0-5 172 pages 1 copy This book looks into the hidden stories, issues, and ramifications of NAFTA for trade dependent families the U.S. and Canadian governments do not highlight to the general public.
             
Deck, Linda P. Job Mobility Across the 49th - The FAQS Page Masters Inc. Greenfield 1998 ISBN: 0-9666164-1-3 84 pages   This book serves as a supplement to Linda Deck's original book, "NAFTA Trade Dependency." It comes as a response to the many questions she received from trade dependent families following the publication of her first book.
             
Drummond, Ian M. and Norman Hillmer Negotiating Freer Trade: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and the Trade Agreements of 1938 Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Waterloo; 1989 ISBN: 0-88920-970-7 197 pages   In writing this book, the authors have drawn on archival and statistical materials in all three countries to provide a clear and detailed account of the economic context of the mid-1930s, the process of negotiations, the issues, and the political and economic significance, both then and now of the final agreements. Their work is full of contemporary resonance an relevance, as it looks at the problems that face any country that tries to negotiate freer trade.
             
Fernandes de Castro, Rafael, and Nomica Verea Campos and Sidney Weintraub. Ed. Sectoral Labor Effects of North American Free Trade The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin. Austin; 1993 ISBN: 0-89940-318-2 368 pages 1 copy This book is based on a pre-NAFTA conference that brought together varying groups to examine the labor effects of trade agreement. Although the papers in this volume were prepared before the completion of the NAFTA negotiations, many issues that are raised in the papers remain unresolved.

English/Spanish
             
Fry, Earl H. and Lee H. Radebaugh. Ed. Investment in the North American Free Trade Area; Opportunities and Challenges David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham young University. Provo; 1991 ISBN: 0-912575-12-3 219 pages   This book looks at the many impacts of the relationship between free trade and foreign direct investment in North America.
           
Gereffi, Gary and David Spener and Jennifer Bair. Ed. Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA. Temple University Press. Philadelphia; 2002. ISBN: 1-56639-967-X (cloth); ISBN: 1-56639-968-8 (pbk.)     This collection of essays seeks to understand the process of globalization by examining the effects of NAFTA on the region's apparel industry.
             
William C. Velasques Institute: Gonzales, Antonio and Alfredo Cruz. Ed., Written by Hinnonosa-Ojeda A Latino Review of President Clinton's NAFTA Package: Inter-Mestic Initiatives Paper 1. William C. Velasques Institute. July, 1997. No ISBN 177 pages 1 copy This publication is the first part of a two-part review of the effects of NAFTA on the interests of Latinos, workers and the environment. The study constitutes the continuation of an effort that began in 1991-93 with the creation of the Latino Consensus on NAFTA.
             
William C. Velasques Institute: Gonzales, Antonio and Alfredo Cruz. Ed., Contributors: Angela Acosta, Ricardo Catanon, Mary Jo Marion" A Latino Review of President Clinton's NAFTA Package: Inter-Mestic Initiatives Paper 2." William C. Velasques Institute. July, 1997.   114 pages 1 copy This publication is the second part of a two-part review of the effects of NAFTA on the interests of Latinos, workers and the environment. The study constitutes the continuation of an effort that began in 1991-93 with the creation of the Latino Consensus on NAFTA.
             
Gonzales-Arechiga, Bernardo and Jose Carlos Ramires. Compiladores Subcontratacion y Empresas Transnacionales: Apertura y Restructuracion en la Maquiladora El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Fundacion Frieddrich Ebert. Mexico; 1990 ISBN: 9686075-31-3 576 pages 1 copy This text incorporates 20 independent analyses that look at an aspect of multinational corporate development in Mexico.
             
Hanson, Victor Davis Mexifornia: A State of Becoming Encounter Books. San Francisco, California ISBN: I-893554-73-2 150 pages 1 copy Part history, part political analysis, and part memoir, Mexifornia looks into how the state, the southwest and indeed the entire nation have been altered by America's hemmorrhaging borders, and how disordered immigration policies are perhaps most harmful to the Mexicans who come seeking a better life.
             
Hart, Michael Trade: Why Bother? Centre for Trade Policy and Law. Ottawa, 1992 ISBN: 0-7709-0298-7 159 pages 1 copy This book discusses the role of trade in Canada's economy. It describes Canadian policy and practice, its place in the international trading system and the role of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Canada-United States Free-Trade Agreement in promoting and defending Canadian interest in the global economy.
             
Hart, Michael A North American Free Trade Agreement: The Strategic Implications for Canada Centre for Trade Policy and Law. Ottawa, 1990 ISBN: 0-886445-114-0 142 pages 3 Copies This book looks at the feasibility and desirability of trilateralizing the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement by including Mexico.
             
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde and Jeffrey J. Schott NAFTA: An Assessment Institute for International Economics. Washington, DC; 1993 ISBN: 0-88132-198-2 164 pages 2 copies This study contains a comprehensive evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It assesses the potential impact of NAFTA on trade, investment, and employment for all three countries. It will be invaluable for those interested in the intense debate over NAFTA.
             
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde and Jeffrey J. Schott NAFTA and the Environment: Seven Years Later Institute for International Economics. Washington, DC; 2000 ISBN: 0-88132-299-7 70 pages 1 copy In this seven-year analysis of NAFTA and the environment, the authors look at the blame placed on NAFTA for the concentrated population and environmental abuse at the US-Mexico border. They recommend ways to better NAFTA's environmental dimension and conclude that it makes more sense to tackle the shortcomings of the agreement than to lament NAFTA and the economic growth it promotes.
             
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde and Jeffrey J. Schott North American Free Trade: Issues and Recommendations Institute for International Economics. Washington, DC; 1992 ISBN: 0-88132-120-6 369 pages 3 copies This study assesses both the substance and the form of a prospective NAFTA by looking at the objectives, implications and effects of potential NAFTA for each of the three countries.
             
The Council for Regional Studies at Baylor University:
             
Lich, Glen E. and Joseph A. Mc Kinney. Ed. Region North America Canada United States. Mexico. Henington Press;1990 ISBN: 1-878804-02-2 175 pages 1 copy This book looks at the issue of free trade in North America and its role in the world economy before the inception of NAFTA.
             
Lustig, Nora and Barry P. Bosworth and Robert Z. Lawrence. Ed North American Free Trade: Assessing the Impact The Brookings Institution. Washington DC; 1992 ISBN: 0-8157-5316-0 274 pages 1 copy In this book, noted trade and development experts review the available literature on the effects of NAFTA on the three member countries and the world trading system.
             
Martin, Philip L. Trade and Migration: NAFTA and Agriculture Institute for International Economics. Washington DC; 1993 ISBN: 0-88132-201-6 (pbk) 158 pages 1 copy In this book, Professor Phillip Martin, a leading expert on migration, concludes that NAFTA will both increase and decrease pressures fro Mexican migration. This study provides a balanced and careful assessment of the controversial, but surprisingly neglected, issue of NAFTA's impact on immigration and offers policy recommendations for President Clinton.
             
Mayer, Frederick W. Interpreting NAFTA: the science and art of political analysis Columbia University Press. New York; 1998 ISBN: 0-231-10981-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 374 pages 1 copy Drawing on a wide range of documents and interviews with officials in the United Sttaes, Mexico, and Canada, as well as the author's experience as an aide to Senator Bill Bradley during negotiations, Interpreting NAFTA is a history of the agreement's development, from opeing talks to final passage. Mayer demonstrates that to understand NAFTA, one must view it as simultaneously a matter of political interests, institutions, and ideas.
             
McGaughey, William A US-Mexico-Canada Free-Trade Agreement: Do We Say No? All about free trade and a better alternative Thistlerose Publications, Minneapolis; 1992 ISBN: 0-9605630-2-4 226 pages 1 copy In this book William McGaughey examines the potential and controversial NAFTA on a broad scale in the context of immediate events and world history.
             
McKinney, Joseph A. and M. Rebecca Sharpless. Ed Implications of a North American Free Trade Region: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Carleton University Press. Ottawa; 1992. ISBN: 0-88629-194-1 208 pages 2 copies The articles in this volume provide thoughtful analyses of several important issues which demand attention as the process of North American integration takes place.
             
Morici, Peter Free Trade in the Americas: a Twentieth Century Fund/Inter- American Monograph The Twentieth Century Fund Press. New York; 1994 ISBN:0-87078-187-1 39 pages 1 copy In this book, Peter Morici offers a three-tiered strategy for the United States to pursue with Canada and Mexico in order to build free trade throughout the Americas.
             
Orme Jr., William A. Continental Shift: Free Trade and the New North America Noel Epstein. Washington DC; 1993 ISBN: 0-9625971-2-0 235 pages 2 copies The most important goal of this book is to strip away the myths surrounding the NAFTA debate and elicit public response to the criticisms made by opponents of NAFTA, while also highlighting the benefits of intelligent industrialization in Mexico.

Briefing Books
             
Pastor, Robert A. Toward a North American Community Institute for International Economics. Washington, D.C. August 2001 ISBN: 0--88132-328-4 191 pages 1 copy In this visionary study, Robert A. Pastor seizes Mexican President, Vicente Fox's idea of a North American community and maps out the paths toward making it a reality.
             
Perot, Ross and Pat Choate Save Your Job, Save Our Country; Why NAFTA Must Be Stopped - NOW! Hyperion. New York; 1993 ISBN: 1-56282-711-1 142 pages 1 copy The objective of this book is to explain to the working people of the United States just what is contained in the North American Free Trade Agreement, how it will cost millions of American jobs, and why the agreement is not in America's national interest. At the same time, this book outlines what should be involved in the right kind of deal with Mexico.
             
Randall, Stephen J. and Hernam W. Konrad. Ed. NAFTA in Transition University of Calgary press. 1995 ISBN: 1-895176-63-8 430 pages 1 copy This volume provides analysis of the economic, social, cultural and political dimensions of the evolving trilateral relationship among the three countries of North America. Contributors address such topics as energy, the environment, trade, labor, the maquiladora industrial sector of Mexico, the Mexican auto industry, and Canada-U.S. cultural relations.
             
Roberts, Karen and Mark I. Wilson Policy Choices: free trade among NAFTA nations Institute for Public Policy and Social Research ISBN: 0-87013-415-9 322 pages 1 copy In this volume, the discussion of NAFTA focuses on issues of importance from a policy perspective. The objective is tos erve as a resource for policy makers who must operate in an environment influenced by free trade.
             
Vega Canovas, Gustavo. Coordinador Mexico ante el libre comercio con America del Norte El Colegio De Mexico. Pedregal de Santa Teresa; 1991 ISBN: 968-12-0474-3 505 pages 1 copy The objective of this book is to answer the many questions that have arisen in Mexico since the Mexican government announced that it had entered into negotiations for a free trade agreement in North America.
             
Weintraub, Sidney NAFTA at Three: A Progress Report The Center for Strategic and International Studies. Washington, DC; 1997 ISBN: 0-89206-928-3 105 pages 1 copy In this book the reader is offered a clear and concise assessment of NAFTA from a broad perspective after three years. Sidney Weintraub provides an intelligible and informed analysis of the criteria by which evaluated and which arguments should be discarded.
             
Wise, Timothy A., Hilda Salazar, Laura Carlsen Ed. Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico Kumarian Press, Inc. Bloomfield, CT; 2003 ISBN: 1-56549-163-7 248 pages 1 copy Amid rising worldwide protests that corporate elites wield too much influence over global economic governance, this book on Mexico's experience under the North American Free Trade Agreement offers insights into whether economic globalization is good for the poor and the environment and if there are any alternatives.
             
Journals/ Institute Publications
             
American Academy of Political and Social Science:
             
Rich, Paul and Guillermo de los Reyes. Ed The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: "NAFTA Revisited: Expectations and Realities." Sage Periodical Press, Thousand Oaks; 1997. v. 550: March 1997   205 pages 1 copy This volume looks at NAFTA with a specific focus on how the agreement relates to Mexico. The articles originated in the first Congress of the Americas, held at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, in March 1996.
             
Weintraub, Sidney. Ed. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: "Free Trade in the Western Hemisphere." Sage Periodical press, Thousand Oaks; 1993. v. 526: March 1993   243 pages 1 copy This articles of this volume look at the many different sides of free trade in the Western Hemisphere.
             
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the U.S. Mexican Policy Studies Program
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin:
             
Killgore, Mark W. and David J. Eaton NAFTA Handbook for Water Resource Managers and Engineers. 1995   ISBN: 0-89940-323-9; ISBN: 0-7844-0086-5 75 pages 1 copy This report describes the consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement on water resources planning and management in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
             
Commerce Clearing House, Canadian Limited (CCH Canadian Ltd.) The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Commentary and Related Documents. CCH Canadian Limited. Riverwoods; 1987 ISBN:0-88796-458-3 132 pages 1 copy The commentary in this book is based upon the essential elements of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement released by two governments immediately following the 1987 Agreement.
             
Commssion for Environmental Cooperation Commission de Cooperations Environnementale; Comision para la Cooperacion Ambiental Assessing Environmental Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): An Analytic framework (Phase II) and Issue Studies Commission for Environmental Cooperation ISBN: 2-922305-27-9 384 pages 1 copy The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation is committed to building a better understanding of the relationship between environment and trade. This Framework for Analysis (Phase II) is a culmination of the collective work of the NAFTA Effects Project Team assembled to assist the CEC in designing a framework to assess on an ongoing basis the environmental effects of NAFTA.
             
Government of Canada-External Affairs and International Trade Canada NAFTA: What's it all about? Government of Canada, External Affairs and International Trade Canada. ISBN: 0-662-20600-2 99 pages 1 copy This handbook provides comprehensive guide to NAFTA from the perspective of Canada.
             
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)--Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Trade Liberalization in the Western Hemisphere IDB/ECLAC. 1995. ISBN:0-9645938-0-7 502 pages 1 copy This comprehensive study is the result of an effort by the IDB and ECLAC to promote analysis and debate of the multiple implications of hemispheric trade liberalization. In selecting consultants for this project, both institutions took care to include many points of view from distinct perspectives.
             
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD); Institut International du Developpment Durable (IIDD); Shsaw, Nevin and Aaron Cosbey GATT , the WTO and Sustainable Development: Positioning the work program on trade and environment IISD No ISBN 42 pages 1 copy The objective of this paper is to sketch out a general approach which might be followed in the unfolding of the WTO's trade and environment work program. The approach is to focus on achieving sustainable development, of which trade liberalization and protection of the environment are parts--parts that can be mutually supportive and promote sustainable development worldwide.
             
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD); Institut International du Developpment Durable (IIDD) And The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Private Rights, Public Problems: A Guide to NAFTA's Controversial Chapter on Investor Right IISD, Winnipeg; 2001 ISBN:1-895536-39-1 110 pages 1 copy  
             
International Management Institute, New Delhi, India (IMI): Stevenson, Sherry M. Privatization and Trade Liberalization Monograph 2 No ISBN 36 pages 1 copy This publication looks at privatization and liberalization from an international perspective after the two phenomena swept the world in the eighties.
             
North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) - Commission for Labor Cooperation North American Labor Markets: A Comparative Profile Bernan Press and the Commission for Labor Cooperation. 1997. ISBN:0-89059-050-2 (English); ISBN:0-89059-074-5 (French); ISBN:0-89059-075-3 (Spanish) 137 pages 1 copy of each language This report provides essential information on the labor markets of the United States, Mexico, Canada in a comparative format presenting the common characteristics and key differences in the North American Labor Market from 1984-1995.This report is the first in the North American Labor Series addressing labor issues in North America released by the international Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation.

English/French/Spanish
             
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE/OECD) Integration of Developing Countries into the International Trading System OCED. 1992. ISBN: 92-64-13616-9 137 pages 1 copy This report argues that the multilateral trading system under the GATT has not led to satisfactory results for developing countries on the whole. Secondly, it states that considerable benefits would be gained through their greater integration into the international trading system by acceptance of basic GATT rules and disciplines along with trade liberalization as appropriate.
             
Secretaria Del Trabajo Y Prevision Social - Subsecretaria "B" and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Mercados de trabajo en la industria maquiladora de exportacion: sintesis del reporte de investigacion. Mexico. 1991 ISBN: 968-6075-35-6 95 pages 1 copy This report looks at the powerful effects of the maquiladora industry on the labor market in Mexico.
             
United States International Trade Commission (USITC) The Likely Impact on the United States of a Free Trade Agreement with Mexico: Report to the Committee on Ways and Means of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate on Investigation No. 332-297 under section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930. USITC Publication 2353; February 1991 No ISBN   1 copy This report highly details the likely impact a U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement would have on the United States.
             
United States International Trade Commission (USITC) The Year In Trade, 1996: Operation of the Trade Agreements Program 48th Report. USITC Publication 3024: April 1997.   215 pages 1 copy This report was prepared to submit to the U.S. Congress in order to provide them with factual information on trade policy and its administration.