Mexico in Transition: Transportation: the Post Nafta Era Through a Constructivist Prism

The North American Free Trade Agreement changed Mexican and United States Relations forever, especially in the realm of commerce. NAFTA had enormous impact on a wide variety of laws and regulations in Mexico, making changes and reversals to policies that had been in place since the Mexican Revolution. Great changes were made in the area of Trucking and truck leasing, an important sector of the Mexican economy, since it is by means of trucks that the majority of Mexican goods get to market. The theory or theories of International Relations have been criticized for their high level of abstraction. In the discussion, there have been debates and polemics about seemingly irrelevant ideas that have little application to the real world. Constructivism, as defined by Nicholas Onuf in his rule-orientated constructivism, provides a framework for looking at a wide variety of International Relations phenomena. Using this framework, this book examines truck leasing and transportation as rules based social activity in a cultural, historical and international context, with particular reference to the NAFTA and Mexican United States relations.