ABSTRACT
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been commonly portrayed as indicative of a pervasive shift in strategy found in the contemporary international political economy. Through this broad lens, the evolution of the trilateral arrangement between the United States, Canada and Mexico is viewed as part of a wider ‘trade policy revolution’.1 As in the other major ‘triad’ configurations, that is to say the European Union (EU) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC), a regional option has been embraced in North America.
