Digital Negotiation History of NAFTA Chapter 11

Digitized and structured dataset of negotiation drafts leading up to the conclusion of investment Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The dataset includes 117 draft versions of the NAFTA text representing the text proposals of Mexico, Canada and the United States from January 1991 to April 1993 in 39 successive draft rounds. Each text's structure has been manually aligned to fit the ultimate structure of the NAFTA Chapter 11. The dataset thereby allows researchers to use digital humanity tools to trace how the negotiation of NAFTA Chapter 11 unfolded for each article.