Abstract
The jurisprudential significance of North America as far as regional economic integration is concerned depends in the first place on what we take North America to be. The general use of the term “North America” in Europe and Latin America as a synonym for the United States of America is unhelpful since this connotation reduces the region to one – albeit giant – national economy. For Canadians, “North America” has generally meant the entity comprised of Canada and mainland USA. Of obsessive interest to Canadians and negligible interest to Americans, this dyad generated little of interest in international economic law until the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA), which entered into force on January 1, 1989, constitutionalized a by then closely allied, highly integrated, and culturally complementary dyad.
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Clarkson, S. (2011). Integration and Disintegration in North America: The Rise and Fall of International Economic Law in One Region. In: Herrmann, C., Terhechte, J. (eds) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2011. European Yearbook of International Economic Law(), vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14432-5_14
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