Internships in the Dominican Republic

InteRDom is an internship program in the Dominican Republic, in which students from any part of the world will have the opportunity to achieve professional experience in a Dominican organization related to their field of study.

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Cristopher Oliver
“The Treadmill of Production Under NAFTA”
Organization & Environment, Vol. 18, No. 1, 55-71 (2005).

Abstract:
The author illustrates the role of NAFTA in the undermining of government attempts to regulate environmental conditions and public health. Two case studies under NAFTA Chapter 11 are examined: (a) Ethyl Corporation v. Canada and (b) Methanex Corporation v. United States. It is argued that multilateral trade agreements have resulted in limiting the power of governmental bodies to regulate their own environmental conditions and that this has been a consequence of two historical processes: (a) the expansion of trade liberalization under free market systems—part of what Schnaiberg calls the "treadmill of production"—and (b) a shift in sovereignty from the nation-state and multinational corporations to consortia of the former two and newly created "supranational organisms"—what Hardt and Negri call "Empire."

Marc Paquin and Karel Maynard
“The CEC and NAFTA Effects on the Environment”
Unisfera International Centre (Montreal, 2003)
http://www.unisfera.org/IMG/pdf/Unisfera_-_NAFTA_effects.pdf#search=%22CEC%20AND%20The%20Effect%20of%20NAFTA%20%22

Public Citizen
“NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Cases: Lessons for the Central American Free Trade Agreement” February 2005.  http://www.citizen.org/documents/NAFTAReportl.pdf.

Abstract:
The increasing importance of ideas and practices of free trade in the world economy requires a better understanding of the role of trade in creating opportunities for development. This study analyzes new forms of governance created in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It finds that environmental groups' participation in NAFTA's implementation has declined while market actors have become increasingly empowered. The study finds that 8 years after NAFTA's passage there are generally diminished expectations that the agreement's environmental provisions and institutional frameworks will help control negative environmental consequences of increased trade between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This brings into question NAFTA's reputation as a "green" trade agreement. The narrow and technical interpretation of the NAFTA's provisions has been oriented toward avoiding trade barriers rather than understanding and improving the complex interactions between trade, the environment, and development.

Simon Baughen
“Expropriation and Environmental Regulation: The Lessons of NAFTA Chapter Eleven”
Journal of Environmental Law, 2006 18(2):207-228; doi:10.1093/jel/eqi050.
Powerpoint Presentation:
http://ciemades.suagm.edu/A_Fuentes/Presentaciones_Conferencia