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This book is an edited collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars from across Canada and the United States that examines Canada's policy relations within a North American context. Grounded in the idea that Canadian policy is contextual--heavily influenced by both North American and global forces--editors Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale trace policy changes from the signing of CUFTA, through NAFTA and 9/11 to the present, with a principal focus on the last decade. Topic areas include border management, security, the North, energy and environmental policies, immigration, labour, cultural relations, transportation, and trade.
List of contents
- Preface/Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- 1: Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale: Borders and Bridges: Canada's Policy Relations in North America
- Part I: Structural and Horizontal Policy Issues
- 2: Geoffrey Hale and Stephen Blank: North American Economic Integration and Comparative Responses to Globalization: Overview
- 3: Christopher Sands and Greg Anderson: Fragmegration, Federalism, and Canada-United States Relations
- 4: John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert: Soft Law Regulatory Coordination and Convergence in North America
- Part II: Sectoral Policy Issues
- Border Management and Defence
- 5: Bernard J. Brister: The Same Yet Different: The Evolution of the Post-9/11 Canada-United States Security Relationship
- 6: Geoffrey Hale and Christina Marcotte: Border Security, Trade, and Travel Facilitation
- 7: Douglas C. Nord: The North in Canadian-American Relations: Searching for Collaboration in Melting Seas
- Energy and Environmental Policies
- 8: Monica Gattinger: Canada's Energy Policy Relations in North America: Towards Harmonization and Supranational Approaches?
- 9: D. Rick Van Schoik, John Kirton, and Jenilee Guebert: Natural Boundaries and National Borders: Barriers to Progress and Bridges to Collaboration in North American Transborder Environmental Governance
- 10: Douglas Macdonald and Debora L. Van Nijnatten: Canadian Climate Policy and the North American Influence
- 11: Emma S. Norman and Karen Bakker: Governing Water across the Canada-US Borderland
- Migration, Labour, and Cultural Policies
- 12: Tamara M. Woroby: Canadian Migration Policy in a North American Framework: Perspectives and Prospects
- 13: Laura Macdonald: Labour on the Side: Shallow North American Governance and the Fate of Canadian and US Workers
- 14: Kevin V. Mulcahy: Identity, Independence, and Imperialism: The Case of Canadian-American Cultural Relations
- Part III: Trade Patterns and Platforms for Trade
- 15: Christopher J. Kukucha: Sub-Federal Trade and the Politics of North American Economic Integration: Evaluating the Cross- Border Exports of American States
- 16: Anita I. Anand: The Persistence of Country-Specific Financial Market Regulation in the Face of Free Trade Agreements
- 17: Guy Stanley: Borders and Bridges: Free Trade, Supply Chains and the Creation of a Joint Trading Platform: Canada-US Industrial Development 1980-2001
- 18: Stephen Blank and Barry Prentice: Canada-US Transportation and Corridor Policies
- 19: William A. Kerr and Jill E. Hobbs: Agricultural Trade and Food Safety
- 20: Geoffrey Hale and Monica Gattinger: Variable Geometry and Traffic Circles: Navigating Canada's Policy Relations in North America
- Glossary
- Index
About the author
Monica Gattinger is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She has written book chapters and journal articles, and has co-authored and co-edited books on Canadian and North American energy policies, and Canadian cultural policy. She is principal investigator on a three-year SSHRC-funded study examining democratic legitimacy in Canada-US policy relations and co-director with Diane Saint-Pierre (INRS-UCS) of a pan-Canadian study team examining the origin and evolution of provincial cultural policy and administration.
Geoffrey Hale is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge.
Summary
This edited collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars from Canada and the United States examines Canada's policy relations within a North American context. Contributors trace policy changes from the signing of CUFTA and NAFTA, through 9/11, and up to the present day. North American policy areas covered include: border management, security, the North, energy and environmental policies, immigration, cultural relations, and labour. Current and comprehensive, Borders and Bridges is the ideal text for students of Canada's international policy relations.
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In short, it is an overdue and much needed book-creating a conversation in the field of comparative policy relations and suggesting ways in which the field should continue to be studied."
