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Borders and bridges : Canada's policy relations in North America / [edited by] Geoffrey Hale, Monica Gattinger.

Hale, Geoffrey E., 1955- (Added Author). Gattinger, Monica, 1970- (Added Author).

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,

Record details

ISBN: 9780195432008
ISBN: 0195432002
Physical Description: viii, 399 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Borders and bridges: Canada's policy relations in North America / Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale -- pt. 1. Structural and horizontal policy issues. 2. North American economic integration and comparative responses to globalization: overview / Geoffrey Hale and Stephen Blank -- 3. Fragmegration, federalism, and Canada-United States relations / Greg Anderson and Christopher Sands -- 4. Soft law, regulatory coordination, and convergence in North America / John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert --

pt. 2. Sectoral policy issues. 5. The same yet different: the evolution of the post-9/11 Canada-United States security relationship / Bernard J. Brister -- 6. Border security, trade, and travel facilitation / Geoffrey Hale and Christina Marcotte -- 7. The North in Canadian-American relations: searching for collaboration in melting seas / Douglas C. Nord -- 8. Canada's energy policy relations in North America: toward harmonization and supranational approaches? / Monica Gattinger -- 9. Natural boundaries and national borders: barriers to progress and bridges to collaboration in North American transborder environmental governance / D. Rick Van Schoik, John Kirton, and Jenilee Guebert -- 10. Canadian climate policy and the North American influence / Douglas Macdonald and Debora L. VanNijnatten -- 11. Governing water across the Canada-US borderland / Emma S. Norman and Karen Bakker -- 12. Canadian migration policy in a North American framework: perspectives and prospects / Tamara M. Woroby -- 13. Labour on the side: shallow North American governance and the fate of Canadian and US workers / Laura Macdonald -- 14. Identity, independence, and imperialism: the case of Canadian-American cultural relations / Kevin V. Mulcahy --

pt. 3. Trade patterns and platforms for trade. 15. Sub-federal trade and the politics of North American economic integration: evaluating the cross-border exports of American states / Christopher J. Kukucha -- 16. The persistence of country-specific financial market regulation in the face of free trade agreements / Anita I. Anand -- 17. Borders and bridges: free trade, supply chains, and the creation of a joint trading platform: Canada-US industrial development since 1980 / Guy Stanley -- 18. Canada-US transportation and corridor policies / Stephen Blank and Barry Prentice -- 19. Agricultural trade and food safety / William A. Kerr and Jill E. Hobbs -- 20. Variable geometry and traffic circles: navigating Canada's policy relations in North America / Geoffrey Hale and Monica Gattinger.