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The individual poses one significant IR puzzle: this is the level where actions are made, decisions taken, casualties inflicted, and numbers counted even as technology advances (how else can markets be created?). Yet, neorealists count it as a unit-level variable, which does not say much since the unit pales in significance to the state or international system; realists and interdependent theorists also treat it as part of the unit, though the unit gets more attention than the system; constructivists elevate it so long as the identity shows; liberalists promote more than analyze it; and regional economic integration recognizes it without bringing it into mainstream analysis.
This chapter has been elaborated with the help of a Research Fund provided by UNAM through Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico that approved the Project “Las elites del TLCAN: Genesis, Estructuración y Consecuencias en las estrategias de desarrollo” (PAPIIT-IN-300810). I thank Sergio Padilla Bonilla for the computing technical support needed to organize and process the databases. I can be contacted at: asalasporras@hotmail.com.
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Salas-Porras, A. (2013). Elite Networks and NAFTA Governance: Beyond State- and Multi-centricism. In: Hussain, I. (eds) Border Governance and the “Unruly” South. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342614_2
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