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

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;

Biography

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

'A timely and instructive collection concerning a central issue for the future of North America by a multidisciplinary group of highly competent scholars. Offers perceptive analyses on how to approach the terrorism-transnational crime nexus and the problematique of regional governance. Useful insights for addressing similar problems in other regions of the world.' Gordon Mace, Interamerican Studies Centre, Laval University, Canada 'The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created the largest free trade area in the world, but created few effective institutions for collective decision-making. As a result, the region lacks mechanisms for dealing with the joint problems that inevitably result from increased economic interaction. In this important volume, distinguished contributors from the three countries provide insight into how Canada, the United States and Mexico are dealing with these North American problems in the absence of meaningful North American governance.' Laura Macdonald, Carleton University, Canada '...provides valuable insights into the fate of the North American project at a time when the momentum towards deepening continental integration, broadly defined, has clearly stalled. As an eclectic trilateral collaboration, it sheds light on the variety of numerous and still evolving transsovereign challenges to governance in this region and should be welcomed by many across the interdisciplinary community of North American studies.' Jeffrey Ayres, Saint Michael's College, United States 'For Australian security professionals, including members of the ADF, National Solutions to Trans-Border Problems is a useful addition to understanding how free-trade arrangements may enhance or detract from national security issues.' Australian Defence Force Journal