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Supplementing our direct focus on specific NAFTA chapter performances, we turn, with this chapter and the next, to the two side agreements. Whereas the NAFTA document involved almost overwhelmingly state-based negotiations (or business groups working through the state), the two side agreements elevate predominantly societal pressures, not necessarily in conjunction with the states. We examine this dimension of the NAFTA experiences, with the environment under the microscope in this chapter and labor likewise in the next.
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Hussain, I., Dominguez, R. (2015). Environmental Side Agreement: Societal Sideshow?. In: North American Regionalism and Global Spread. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493347_6
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