NAFTA & Neocolonialism: Comparative Criminal, Human & Social Justice

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University Press of America, 2004 - Political Science - 269 pages
This work is a study of the impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). By focusing on the issue of justice in the contexts of globalization and neo-colonialism, the book contributes to a broader discussion of the significance of NAFTA.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
The Annals NAFTA Report
4
Criminal Human and Social Justice Issues
9
THE GENESIS OF NEOCOLONIALISM
13
The Colonial experience
15
Revolutions and Political Instability
17
Manifest Destiny Monroe Doctrine and US Mexican War
18
The War of Reform and French intervention
20
The fruits of the Opium Wars
128
The social psychology of war
130
Comparative criminal justice in North America
133
The mechanisms of selective justice in the United States
140
Comparative border justice with NAFTA partners
141
Canadian criminal justice system
142
Mexican justice
144
Pre 911 culturedrugs and legal strain
145

El Porfirato and the Revolution
21
Nationalism in PostRevolution Mexico
24
The unwinding of the Revolution
29
Death of the Revolution
32
Forces of the market and globialization
38
The Northern Border Colonial Wars Aboriginal Ways
43
American Indians and the Colonial Wars
45
US policies of ethnic cleaning and colonialism
48
The French Canadians
51
Migration to America
55
Early French Canadian Family
59
WORLD ECONOMICS SOCIAL JUSTICE
63
Worldviews and perspectives on social justice
68
The emergent World Trade Organization
76
North American SocioEconomics and Social Justice
83
Manifest Destiny and capitalism
84
US Indian policy and International colonialism
87
Raw Capitalism vs Labor issues in the United States
94
Migration and environmental issues in the United States
103
Social and Economic Justice in Canada
109
Canadian Aboriginal policies
110
Canadian capitalism vs labor issues
113
Canadian migration and environmental issues
116
COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL HUMAN JUSTICE
119
Unresolved Native issues
120
Marxs value surplus emerges in the 21 Century
122
InterAmerican capital exploits
126
Border perspectives since 911
148
Comparative Human Rights issues in North America
153
Continued social injustice of Native Americans
155
Cobell v Norton
158
Continued stone walling by the Bush Administration
161
War on terrorism suppression of due process
162
CULTURE SOCIAL STATUS AND EDUCATION
169
Education and social control and stratification
170
Doctors for dummiesMasters for morons
174
Diploma mills and the ale of social status
175
New Mexico example
186
Comparative education in North America
195
Education in the United States of America
196
Early Republic era
197
Emergence of public schools
200
Contemporary era
206
Civil Rights and Title IX
208
New directions and brewing controversies
213
Canadian education systems
214
DominionModern era
215
Minority education system
217
Mexican education system
218
Educational system overview
224
Endnotes
227
Bibliography
245
Index
261
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