Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community - From the Civil War to Today

Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-U.S. Security Community focuses on three diasporas and their impact on North American security relations, the Irish and Germans, which were mainly in the U.S., and the Muslim diaspora, which is based in both countries.

List of contents

Chapter 1: "Geopolitical" Borders and North America's Hobbesian Past: Mythologizing the 49th Parallel
Chapter 2: From Zone of War to Zone of Peace: Origins and Evolution of the Canada-US Security Community
Chapter 3: Diasporas and their Impact upon Global and Regional Security: The Question of "Ethnic Lobbying"
Chapter 4: Big Stick, or Splintered Shillelagh? Irish America and Its Impact on the Canada-US Security Relationship
Chapter 5: "Do the German Americans Dictate Our Foreign Policy?": The Principle of the Opposite Effect, Applied
Chapter 6: "New Fenians" and "Homegrowns": Jihadism and the Evolving North American Security Community
Chapter 7: Conclusion

About the author

David Haglund is professor of political science at Queen's University, Canada.

Summary

Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-U.S. Security Community focuses on three diasporas and their impact on North American security relations, the Irish and Germans, which were mainly in the U.S., and the Muslim diaspora, which is based in both countries.

Product details

• Authors: David G Haglund, David G. Haglund, Haglund David G.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2015
• EAN: 9781442242692
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4269-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Canada, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, Diplomacy, United States of America, USA, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state