Sovereignty and Citizenship in Contemporary US Foreign Economic Policy

Abstract

So we have to face the choice of fact versus fear…. Will we hunker down and say, my goodness, we're going to be overcome by a trade agreement with Mexico, a country with an economy only five percent as big as ours; or are we going to reach out to the rest of the world and say we can compete and win again[?] … When the moment of decision comes, I believe ordinary working Americans will agree with every living President, every living Secretary of State, every living Secretary of the Treasury, every living Nobel Prize-winning economist, and over 40 of the 50 governors, that NAFTA means expanding markets. And we have to have expanding markets, not shrinking horizons. Our jobs and our children's jobs depend on it.¹