Does North America exist? : governing the continent after NAFTA and 9/11 /

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Author / Creator:	Clarkson, Stephen.
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press ; Washington, DC : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, c2008.
Description:	592 p. : charts ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Trade blocs -- North America. Free trade -- North America. National security -- North America. Economic history. Economic policy. Free trade. International economic integration. National security. Politics and government Trade blocs. North America -- Economic integration. North America -- Economic policy. North America -- Economic conditions -- 21st century. North America -- Politics and government -- 21st century. North America.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7539273

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ISBN:	9780802097125 (bound) 080209712X (bound) 9780802096531 (pbk.) 0802096530 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-555) and index.
Summary:	"Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico probes this curious question by looking at the institutions created by NAFTA, a broad selection of economic sectors, and the security policies put in place by the three neighbouring countries following 9/11. This detailed, meticulously researched, and up-to-date treatment of North America's transborder governance allows the reader to see to what extent the United States' dominance in the continent has been enhanced or mitigated by trilateral connections with its two continental partners." "The product of seven years' political research in the areas of economy, international relations, and policy, Does North America Exist? is an ambitious and path-breaking study that will be essential reading for those wanting to understand whether the continent containing the world's most powerful nation is holding its own as a global region."--BOOK JACKET.
Other form:	Online version: Clarkson, Stephen. Does North America exist? Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press ; Washington, DC : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, c2008

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Framing the Question
I. North America as Market and Community
Part 1. Less Than Meets the Eye: State Re-regulation via Regional Institutionalization
II. NAFTA's Institutional Vacuum
III. NAFTA's Uneven Judicial Capacity
IV. Transborder Labour Governance
V. Transborder Environmental Governance
VI. Transboundary Water Governance
Part 2. More Than Meets the Eye: Market Reconfiguration at the Continental Level
VII. The Role of Big Business in Negotiating Free Trade
VIII. Continental Energy (In)security
IX. Agriculture: Beef, Wheat, and Corn
Part 3. The Continent in Transition: Further Reconfiguration under Globalizing Pressures
X. The Steel Industry
XI. Textiles and Apparel
XII. The Governance of Capital Markets
Part 4. Not What Meets the Eye: Global Governance in North America
XIII. The Banking Sector
XIV. Labelling Genetically Modified Food
XV. Intellectual Property Rights and Big Pharma
Part 5. Just What It Used to Be: Persistent State Dominance
XVI. Border Security and the Continental Perimeter
XVII. North American Defence
XVIII. The Third Bilateral: The Mexico-Canada Relationship
XIX. The Security and Prosperity Partnership
Conclusion: Framing the Answer
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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