The article deals with the relationship between United States and Mexico from perspective of US national security. key areas strategic interest in on part include: limiting illegal immigration, fighting drug-related crime, economic cooperation, both bilateral wider international dimension, for example North American Free Trade Agreement. According to States, all three factors their successful i...

The relationship between technology and international competitiveness dates back to the neo-technological trade theories of the 1960s. This approach considers difference in technology as the primary motive for difference among nations in terms of trade performance. The technology gap approach emphasizes inter-country differences in innovativeness as the basis for international trade flows. The ...

This paper reinvestigates the bilateral and unilateral effects of five ASEAN free trade agreements (FTAs) by applying a theory-consistent structural gravity model that remains untouched in existing literature. The findings suggest ASEAN-China ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTAs led to decrease international among member countries between non-member relation their internal trade. ASEAN-Korea, ASEAN...

The United States' pursuit of increasingly TRIPS-Plus levels of intellectual property protection for medicines in bilateral and regional trade agreements is well recognized. Less so, however, are U.S. efforts through these agreements to influence and constrain the pharmaceutical coverage programs of its trading partners. Although arguably unsuccessful in the Australia- U.S. Free Trade Agreement...