Mexico: So Close to the United States, So Far from Latin America

Jorge Chabat is a researcher at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) and a professor at the Universidad lberoamericana in Mexico City. He co-edited The United States and Mexico: Economic Growth and Security in a Changing World Order (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, forthcoming). The author would like to thank Jeffrey Stark and Eileen Scott of the North-South Center of the University of Miami for their comments and help with 'this article.