Document Type
Article
Publication Title
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
Abstract
The application of critical race insights to issues involving U.S. foreign relations is likely to benefit both international lawyers and traditional race critics, albeit for different reasons. In critical race theory, international lawyers will find liberation from the prevailing state-centric and positivist modes of analysis that now dominate our field. Traditional race critics, who have usually stopped at the water's edge, may discover that U.S. foreign policy decisions replicate some of the familiar patterns of many domestic U.S. laws. Race critics may find it illuminating that what the U.S. government does, by way of treaty, serves to entrench or even exacerbate racial and ethnic divides within other nations-as well as within our own.
First Page
303
Volume
28
Publication Date
1996
Recommended Citation
Alvarez, José E., "Critical Theory and the North American Free Trade Agreement's Chapter Eleven" (1996). Faculty Articles. 17.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/17
