TY - BOOK AU - THORSTENSEN, Vera TI - Mercosul [sic] : the road to NAFTA and the European Union PY - 1994/// N2 - Looks at the challenges presently facing Mercosur, viz., Mercosur should spearhead the formation of a new regional bloc encompassing all of South America; Mercosur should maintain a 'global trader' policy while embarking on more aggressive negotiations of preferential and sector-specific agreements with its major trading partner, the European Union; and, Mercosur should forge closer alignment with the US in spearheading the hemisphere-wide process of integration between NAFTA and the South American Free Trade Area ER -