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

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, an...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 9 figures; 4 tables
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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