ABSTRACT
Mexican foreign policy has gone through dramatic changes in the last decade. A critical defining factor here was the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States that took place in 2001. Given Mexico’s geographic proximity as well as its economic dependence on the United States, the country’s leaders had to adapt to the post-9/11 security needs of their much more powerful economic partner. Indeed, leaders in all three North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries recognized that changes had to be made in the way goods, services and people cross their shared borders.
