AN ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY CORRESPONDING TO REGIONAL COOPERATION:: THE NAFTA/USMCA CASE

• Autor(a) principal: Gabrielly de Lacerda Mendes, Andressa
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Estudos Internacionais (REI)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.uepb.edu.br/REI/article/view/1498
• topic: Política externa; EUA; NAFTA; USMCA; Foreign Policy; USA; NAFTA; USMCA

NAFTA, ratified in 1993 by the former president Bill Clinton, is composed by the USA, Mexico, and Canada. It was the institutional arrangement, which delimited the trade among the countries, since 1994, until it was substituted by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in the Trump government (2017 - in progress). Having said that, the article’s main goal is to understand what are the main aspects of USA’s Foreign Policy during Barack Obama’s and Donald Trump’s governments, in what concerns NAFTA and the creation of the substitute agreement (i.e.USMCA). Additionally, the article aims at checking whether or not there was any change in the USA trade foreign policy during the two administrations. The main hypothesis is that there was a change in the US foreign policy from Obama’s government to Trump’sgovernment in reference of the integration process with Canada and Mexico within NAFTA’s scope, mainlyin the variable negotiation. Methodologically, there was a historical analysis.