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The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) represents the grand bargain of the hemispheric project across the Americas. At the same time, as it has evolved from a largely technical to an increasingly political bargaining process, the FTAA has evidenced the extent to which neither regional integration, nor indeed globalization, are dynamics devoid of politics.
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Tussie, D., Labaqui, I. (2005). The Free Trade Area of the Americas: the Hunt for the Hemispheric Grand Bargain. In: Fawcett, L., Serrano, M. (eds) Regionalism and Governance in the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523029_4
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