1. Jorge G. Castañeda, “NAFTA’s mixed record: The view from Mexico,” Foreign Affairs 93, no. 1 (2014): 135, but see 134–41.
2. Stephen Clarkson, Sarah Davidson, and Carlton Thorne, “De-institutionalizing North America: NAFTA’s committees and working groups,” Third EnviReform Conference (Toronto, 2002).
3. On these stages, see Bela Balassa, The Theory of Economic Integration (New York: Routledge, 2012, originally 1962).
4. On distinction between “strong” and “weak” states based on interest-group intermediation, see Peter Katzenstein, ed., Between Power and Plenty: Foreign Economic Policies of Advanced Industrialized States (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1978).
5. Ralph Folsom, NAFTA in a Nutshell (St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1999), 94.