NAFTA II: The Prospects for Institutional Deepening

When: 11.12.2004

The audience and presenters at this second NAFTA Workshop engaged in a lively discussion of the past, present, and future prospects for deepening NAFTA’s institutions. Among the participants were prominent scholars and practitioners in the fields of international trade, international organization, development economics and environmental studies. Carol Wise introduced this second conference as an opportunity to tackle the pressing issues of institutional design and institutional deepening within the NAFTA block. Pamela Johnson, Cultural and Academic Relations Officer of the Canadian Consulate of Los Angeles, welcomed the participants and framed the workshop as an opportunity to integrate Canadian perspectives into discussion of NAFTA, which tend to be south-facing, especially in Los Angeles.

NAFTA and the Institutional Debate

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Barbara Koremenos, UCLA

Isidro Morales, Universidad de las Ameritas, Puebla

Louis Belanger, Laval University

Moderator: Peter Rosendorff, USC
Discussant: Maria Isabel Studer, FLACSO-Mexico City


NAFTA’s Innovations: The Environmental Side Agreement

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Cesar Nava, UNAM

Joe DiMento, UC Irvine

John Kirton, University of Toronto

Moderator: Sheldon Kamieniecki, USC
Discussant: Aaron Cosbey, International Institute of Sustainable Development


NAFTA’s Distributional Dimension and the Social Policy Debate

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Antonia Maioni, McGill University

Daniel Lederman, World Bank

Ernie Lightman, University of Toronto

Jonathan Heath, HSBC Mexico

Raul Hinojosa, UCLA

Moderator: Carol Wise, USC
Keynote Address: Robert Pastor, American University