Economic integration and citizenship policy design: a comparated analysis in Europe; North America, Central and South America

Context: the purpose of this study, whose assumption is the premise that commercial agreements aims the exchange of goods and services in good tax conditions for the parties, is to identify and comparatively analyze the configuration of how the National States designed the conception of citizenship and the structuring of participation in the decisions of the economic blocs. Object: the nature of content about citizenship includes commercial agreements; what are the common and disparate themes; Theoretical framework: citizenship; policy design; business integration Research questions 1) the spectrum of citizenship is highly or slightly variable among the citizens of the European Union; and for those of countries that have entered into trade agreements with the European Union; and between American countries and between those and the European Union; 2) What classification of social and citizen participation do trade agreements include? Sample / Data: 1) the theme of the area of citizenship in the European Union; 2) the Free Trade Agreement between the United States of America / Canada / Mexico; 3) the Free Trade Agreement between the United States of America and the Central American Integration System (SICA); 4) the Association Agreement between the European Union and SICA; 5) SICA; 6) Mercosur; 7) the Association Agreement between Mercosur and the European Union; 8) the Free Trade Agreement between Mercosur and the United States of America; 9) and each of the agreements between the United States of America, Canada, Mexico and the European Union. Methodology and data: multiple study case; qualitative analysis from empirical data (official documents available in the web. Participant profile: the author is a policy maker in Brazil; she finished a doctorate at the school of government of the Central American Integration System; She is a former Consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Brasília; she was a Professor at the University of Costa Rica; She is a graduate of pilot training promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil for the training of personnel in cooperation in the area of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur); and she is a researcher on the international investment movement, public policy and society.