00606nam a2200097Ia 450000500170000010000250001724500640004226000090010652003740011558300190048920260716043407.0 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