North America in Question : : Regional Integration in an Era of Economic Turbulence / / Jeffrey Ayres, Laura MacDonald.

• VerfasserIn: Ayres, Jeffrey,; MacDonald, Laura ,
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, James P.,; Ayres, Jeffrey,; Bow, Brian,; Brodie, Janine,; Cadena-Roa, Jorge,; Clarkson, Stephen,; Craik, Neil,; Gabriel, Christina,; Germain, Randall,; Gilbert, Emily,; Golob, Stephanie R.,; Healy, Teresa,; Icaza, Rosalba,; MacDonald, Laura,; Mohamed, Abdulghany,; Vannijnatten, Debora L.,; vengroff, richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 9 figures; 4 tables

Can North America survive as a region in light of the political turbulence provoked by the global economic crisis? Or have regional integration and collaboration reached a plateau beyond which disintegration is likely? In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico provide theoretically innovative and rich empirical reflections on current challenges sweeping the continent and on the faltering political support for North American regionalism.This collection begins by reviewing the recent trajectories and events that have undermined North America's trilateral relationship, then addresses concerns that go beyond NAFTA and economic issues, including labour, immigration, energy, the environment, quality of citizenship, borders, women's and civil society struggles, and democratic deficits. Although demonstrating that many informal dimensions of North American integration continue to flourish, the contributors assess whether the future will hold greater economic instability, security crises, and emerging bilateral relationships.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: North America in Question -- PART I. North America and Political-Economic Turbulence -- 1 Global Economic Crisis and Regionalism in North America: Region-ness in Question? -- 2 Immovable Object or Unstoppable Force? Economic Crisis and the Social Construction of North America -- 3 Continental Governance, Post-Crisis: Where Is North America Going? -- 4 The Mexican Political Security Crisis: Implications for the North American Community -- PART II. North American Problems without North American Governance -- 5 North American Community from Above and from Below: Working-Class Perspectives on Economic Integration and Crisis -- 6 Environment and Energy: Prospects for New Forms of Continental Governance -- 7 Borders and Security in North America -- 8 Continental Dissonance? The Politics of Migration in North America -- PART III. Democratic Deficits, New Actors, and Responses to the Crisis -- 9 Plus Ça Change: Double Bilateralism and the Demise of Trilateralism -- 10 Paradiplomacy: States and Provinces in the Emerging Governance Structure of North America -- 11 (Re)Thinking the 'New' North America through Women's Citizenship Struggles in Mexico -- 12 Democratic Deficits and the Role of Civil Society in North America: The SPP and Beyond -- Conclusion: Will North America Survive? -- Index