00653nam a2200121Ia 4500 20260716043407.0 Abbott, Frederick M. NAFTA and the legalization of world politics : a case study 2000 Analyzes 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. 11/6/00 JOY_D A 46346 46346