00577nam a2200085Ia 4500100002500000245006400025260000900089520037400098583001900472 aAbbott, Frederick M. aNAFTA and the legalization of world politics : a case study c2000 aAnalyzes the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the context of a broader project examining the causes and consequences of the legalization of world politics. Analyses and explains why trade negotiators have increasingly relied on hard law instruments to pursue international economic objectives and why a particular hard law model was used to create NAFTA. c11/6/00kJOY_D