National Solutions to Trans-Border Problems?: The Governance of Security and Risk in a Post-NAFTA North America

by Isidro Morales (Editor)

Overview

'Triggered by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada, the United States and Mexico redefined their public policies to facilitate the regionalization of transactions. However, this volume addresses the institutional gaps that still remain focusing mainly on the cross-border governance of security aspects. It gathers interdisciplinary contributions of specialists working on continental issues within Canada, the United States and Mexico and highlights the transnational dimension of certain issues still managed under national-framed policies. Furthermore, it explores the possibilities and constraints for moving public policy into new cross-border governance strategies. Divided in three parts, the first part assesses what is at stake in cross-border governance issues and whether the integrative trend in the region will be maintained or stalled in the years to come. The second part explores the growing scope of security problems interconnected with borders, migration, energy and drug trafficking across the region. It highlights how Mexico and Canada are responding or adapting their policy choices to a continental security approach framed by the US after the terrorist attacks of September 11, and to the major concerns of the Obama administration. The third part focuses on the governance of territorial borders and bilateral affairs, i.e. Mexico-US and Canada-Mexico relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409409182
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/28/2011
Series:	New Regionalisms Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professor, Isidro Morales, Instituto Tecnológico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Santa Fe, Mexico

Table of Contents

Part I Post-NAFTA North America. National solutions to cross-border problems?; Introduction; Chapter 1 Sitting in Limbo, CarolWise; Chapter 2 Governing the North American Free Trade Area, LouisBélanger; Chapter 3 The Governance of Mobility and Risk in a Post-NAFTA Rebordered North America, IsidroMorales; Part II The Governance of Continental Security: Is it Possible to Move to a Common Approach?; Chapter 4 Is There an Integrated Electricity Market in North America? Institutional Challenges in Mexico, AlejandroIbarra-Yunez; Chapter 5 Continental Borders and National Security, StephenClarkson; Chapter 6 The North American Partnership for Security and Prosperity (SPP) and the Development of the Northern Border Region of Mexico, José M.Ramos; Chapter 7 Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative, JohnBailey; Chapter 8 Overcoming the Perceived Objections and Actual Obstacles to a North American Continental Common Transborder Security (NACTS), D. RickVan Schoik; Chapter 9 Globalization and Regionalization in North America, José LuisValdés Ugalde, BernadetteVega; Part III The Governance of Territorial Borders and Bilateral Relations; Chapter 10 Borderlands: Risky Spaces or Safe Places? ‘Real and Imaginary’ Borders – (Re)Framing Identity and Privilege, ElaineCorrea; Chapter 11 Nationalist Policies, Immigration, and Policy Boomerangs, ImtiazHussain; Chapter 12 What’s in a Visa? Considerations of the Canada-Mexico Relationship within North America’s Security Discussions, OlgaAbizaid; Chapter 13, SusanaChacón;