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100 1 $aWeintraub, Sidney,$d1922-2014.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81068716
245 10 $aUnequal partners :$bthe United States and Mexico /$cSidney Weintraub.
260 $aPittsburgh :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axv, 172 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aPitt Latin American series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: Mexico's Political Economy --$g2.$tTrade: From Closure to Opening --$g3.$tForeign Direct Investment and Finance: From Resistance to Welcome --$g4.$tNarcotics: Effect of Profits from U.S. Consumption --$g5.$tEnergy: The Oil Is Ours --$g6.$tMigration: A Consequence of Inequality --$g7.$tThe Border: A Phenomenon of Its Own --$g8.$tFindings: Changing Traditional Practices.
520 1 $a"Since Mexico's defeat in the Mexican-American War of the 1840s, the United States has dominated Mexico economically, militarily, and politically. This long history of asymmetry has created a Mexican distaste for "American arrogance" and an American vision of Mexico as its "backyard," and has damaged political negotiations, trade pacts, and capital flows, as suspicions and protectionism have undermined diplomacy. Despite this, the two nations remain joined at the hip: more than 80 percent of Mexico's exports are to the United States, and the majority of foreign investment in Mexico comes from America. In Unequal Partners, Sidney Weintraub examines the current relationship of Mexico and the United States as one of sustained dependence and dominance." "The chapters examine the consequences of this imbalance in six major policy areas: trade; investment and finance; narcotics; energy; migration; and the border. The book begins in 1954 when the Mexican "growth miracle" was at its apex, and proceeds to the present. Special attention is paid to the post-1982 debt crisis era, when Mexico began a more outward-looking trade policy. As this study reveals, Mexico has often been its own worst enemy in foreign relations. Over the past thirty years, the country has been plagued by debt, currency fluctuations, tax collection problems, political corruption, and state-controlled business monopolies that block foreign investment and importation. These factors have created an environment of instability, damaged outside perceptions, and weakened Mexico's bargaining position." "Weintraub considers future policy changes that would help Mexico to level the playing field. Improving the education system, he argues, will benefit nearly every other activity and institution, and opening the oil market to private investment and technology will help develop deep-water drilling and revitalize this significant export commodity. In foreign relations, Mexico must be assertive - as it has been in easing U.S. restrictions on goods traded through NAFTA, and demanding U.S. aid to fight drug cartels - not passive, as it currently is on U.S. anti-immigration policy and the proposed border wall. Perhaps most importantly, the study points to the deeper development of policies that are proactive and outward looking."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMexico.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100059
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign economic relations$zMexico.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100035
651 0 $aMexico$xForeign relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100304
651 0 $aMexico$xForeign economic relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100326
830 0 $aPitt Latin American series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42019087
852 0 $bglx$hE183.8.M6$iW44 2010