In this article, the author evaluates the first year of Sheinbaum’s security strategy, focusing on the duality of her security approach.
Pamela K. Starr explores how the Trump administration’s coercive trade, security, and migration policies are reshaping the century-old “Autonomy within Limits” accord, straining U.S.–Mexico relations but ultimately pointing toward a new, more restrictive balance of power.
After little more than a year of tension-filled talks, US and Mexican negotiators have reached a preliminary agreement that would largely preserve, in both concept and content, the original NAFTA. But for both Mexico and Canada, the uncertain and painful renegotiation of NAFTA comes with high costs beyond the expected economic losses. Resolving the NAFTA dispute will not repair the damage Trump has inflicted on US relations with both Mexico and Canada.
With a constant stream of offensive and intimidating rhetoric addressed to Mexico, compounded by a mean-spirited and highly contentious set of policy proposals, Trump himself is largely responsible for the sharp deterioration in bilateral ties in the past two years.
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