%0 Journal Article %T Mexican Anti-Americanism And Regional Integration in North America %A Bow %A Brian %A Santa-Cruz %A Arturo %J Norteam¨¦rica %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X regionalization is a fact in north america, but regionalism has barely gotten off the ground. several factors have been proposed to explain the underdevelopment of regional institutions in north america: divergent interests and priorities, concerns about sovereignty, nationalism, and, particularly since 9/11, the united states' preoccupation with policing its borders. one other important element has been largely left unexplored in government and academic studies: anti-americanism. in considering the prospects for deeper north american integration, the persistence and effects of anti-americanism in mexico is definitively a factor. it is complex and subtle, with numerous currents spouting from a single wellspring: the u.s. refusal to recognize mexico as an equal partner. this article takes a historical and contextual approach to tracking its evolution. %K anti-americanism %K regional integration %K u.s.-mexico relations %K north american identity. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1870-35502011000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en