Navigating a Changing World: Canada's International Policies in an Age of Uncertainties

by Geoffrey Hale (Editor), Greg Anderson (Editor)

Overview

The negotiation of the Canada–U.S. Free Trade agreement in 1985–88 initiated a period of substantially increased North American, and later, global economic integration. However, events since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 have created the potential for major policy shifts arising from NAFTA’s renegotiation and continuing political uncertainties in the United States and with Canada’s other major trading partners.

Navigating a Changing World draws together scholars from both countries to examine Canada–U.S. policy relations, the evolution of various processes for regulating market and human movements across national borders, and the specific application of these dynamics to a cross-section of policy fields with significant implications for Canadian public policy. It explores the impact of territorial institutions and extra-territorial forces – institutional, economic, and technological, among others – on interactions across national borders, both within North America and, where relevant, in broader economic relationships affecting the movement of goods, services, people, and capital. Above all, Navigating a Changing World represents the first major study to address Canada’s international policy relations within and beyond North America since the elections of Justin Trudeau in 2015 and Donald Trump in 2016 and the renegotiation of NAFTA.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487537715
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	04/07/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	624
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Geoffrey Hale is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge.

Greg Anderson is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface

1.Canada at the Crossroads: Canada’s International Policy Relations
in an Era of Political and Economic Uncertainty
Geoffrey Hale and Greg Anderson

Part One: Overarching Issues
2. The Great Unravelling? The Construction and Deconstruction of
North America’s Governance Architecture
Greg Anderson and David Jones

3. Days of Future Past: Evaluating Canadian Foreign Trade Policies
Christopher Kukucha

4. International Regulatory Cooperation and Multilevel Governance:
Motives, Methods, and Outcomes
Geoffrey Hale

5. Who Is Us? The Shifting Sands of Foreign Direct Investment Policies
Greg Anderson

Part Two: Market Movements, Human Flows, and Canada’s Multidimensional Borders
6. Cross-Border Movements and Governance: A Multidimensional Shifting Landscape
Geoffrey Hale

7. Reforming High-Skilled Temporary Worker Programs in Canada and the United States: Sticks and Carrots
Meredith B. Lilly

8. Managing Cross-Cutting Interdependencies: Canada’s Cross-Border Transportation and Infrastructure Regimes in a North American and International Context
Geoffrey Hale

9. Dividing and Uniting Transportation Border Markets: The Role of Cabotage
Barry E. prentice and John Coleman
10. National Security and Economic Security: Distributed vs. Hierarchical Management of Domestic and Critical Infrastructure Security in Canada and North America 230
Geoffrey Hale

11. Environmental vs. Territorial Borders: Canada-U.S. Cooperation on Environmental Issues and the Resilience of Transboundary Governance
Debora Vannijnatten and Carolyn Johns

Part Three: Trans-Border and Cross-Border Regions
12. The Pacific North West Economic Region: An Institutional Analysis of Effective Regional Governance
Patricia Dewey Lambert

13. Cross-Border Constraints and Dynamics in the Northeast
Stephen Tomblin

14. Attributes of Cross-Border Economic Policymaking in the Great Lakes Economic Region: Insights into Complex Bordering Processes at the Subnational Scale
Kathryn Bryk Friedman

15. Canada’s Arctic Boundaries and the United States: Binational vs. Bilateral Policymaking in North America
Carolyn C. James

Part Four: Sectoral and Subsectoral Issues
16. Whither Canada’s Automotive industry? Policy, Trade, and Regional Competitiveness
Brendan A. Sweeney

17. Canadian Energy in North America and Beyond: Between an Economic Rock and a Progressive Hard Place
Monica Gattinger

18. Is NAFTA’s Northern Border Thickening for Agri-Food Products?
William A. Kerr and Jill E. Hobbs

19. International Trade in Arms Regulations and Quebec’s Aerospace Industry
Mathilde Bourgeon and Elisabeth Vallet

20. Capacity for Choice? Managing International Policy Relations in a World of Shifting Borders
Geoffrey Hale and Greg Anderson

Bibliography
Contributors
Index   

What People are Saying About This

Timothy J. Pasch

"The importance of the issues discussed and analyzed in this text should not be underestimated. Significant and far-reaching changes to global alliances and long-term treaties are taking place at a dizzying rate. The scope of topics and quality of scholarship in Navigating a Changing World will undoubtedly serve as a source for high-level policy recommendations for various agencies in Canada and the United States as well as in other national agencies."

Laurie Trautman

"Navigating a Changing World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the state of Canada's international policy relations. Hale and Anderson successfully balance theoretical perspectives, including debates about sovereignty and a-territoriality, with policy considerations, situating the range of topics covered within the contemporary economic and political landscape of Canada, and Canada's international relations."

David G. Haglund

"Hale and Anderson have produced an outstandingly comprehensive and insightful review of the challenges facing Canada as it grapples with developing effective policy responses in a rapidly changing international economic and political order. Canada is, as the editors state, at a 'crossroads,' and whether the route ahead is to be a smooth or a bumpy ride will in no small measure be a function of how policymakers address the dilemmas that are so intelligently analyzed in this volume. Navigating a Changing World is a major contribution to scholarship on Canadian foreign economic policy, with a breadth of coverage that has rarely been equalled, and never surpassed, in any previous work."

Editorial Reviews

"Hale and Anderson have produced an outstandingly comprehensive and insightful review of the challenges facing Canada as it grapples with developing effective policy responses in a rapidly changing international economic and political order. Canada is, as the editors state, at a ‘crossroads,’ and whether the route ahead is to be a smooth or a bumpy ride will in no small measure be a function of how policymakers address the dilemmas that are so intelligently analyzed in this volume. Navigating a Changing World is a major contribution to scholarship on Canadian foreign economic policy, with a breadth of coverage that has rarely been equalled, and never surpassed, in any previous work."

—David G. Haglund, professor of political studies, Queen’s University

" Navigating a Changing World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the state of Canada’s international policy relations. Hale and Anderson successfully balance theoretical perspectives, including debates about sovereignty and a-territoriality, with policy considerations, situating the range of topics covered within the contemporary economic and political landscape of Canada, and Canada’s international relations."

—Laurie Trautman, director of Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University

"The importance of the issues discussed and analyzed in this text should not be underestimated. Significant and far-reaching changes to global alliances and long-term treaties are taking place at a dizzying rate. The scope of topics and quality of scholarship in Navigating a Changing World will undoubtedly serve as a source for high-level policy recommendations for various agencies in Canada and the United States as well as in other national agencies."

—Timothy J. Pasch, associate professor of communication, University of North Dakota

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