North American Borders in Comparative Perspective

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and nonresident scholar at the Baker Institute's Mexico Center at Rice University. Correa-Cabrera is also co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives (ISP) journal.Victor Konrad teaches geography at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is a former president of both the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and the Association for Borderlands Scholars, and he is a recipient of the Donner Medal. Author of more than one hundred publications, he has been the founding director of the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program and a visiting professor at universities in China, the United States, and Europe.

With essays by leading border scholars and practitioners, this book provides superb analysis of how evolving globalization and the security imperative have redefined the shared borders and border regions of the USA, Canada, and Mexico. North American Borders in Comparative Perspective is a key resource for students, scholars, the policy community, and community activists who want to understand these critical border regions of North America." - Paul Ganster, co-author of The U.S.-Mexico Border into the Twenty-First Century

• ForewordPrefaceIntroduction. The International Boundary Perimeter of the United States of America: Two Borders and Many BorderlandsGuadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Victor KonradNorth American Borders in MapsPART I. REPLACING BORDERS BETWEEN MEXICO, THE UNITED STATES, AND CANADA1. Actors, Strategic Fields, and Game Rules: Examining Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Twenty-First CenturyTony Payan2. Reimagining the Border Between Canada and the United StatesVictor Konrad3. Twenty-First- Century North American Borders: More Fixed, Fuzzy, Flexible, Fluid, or Free? Sovereignty Lesson from Around the GlobeRick Van SchoikPART II. SPACES, DIVISIONS, AND CONNECTIVITY IN NORTH AMERICAN BORDERLANDS4. Transborder Spaces and Regional Identity in North AmericaFrancisco Lara-Valencia5. Territorial Divisive and Connective Spaces: Shifting Meanings of Borders in the North American BorderlandsDonald K. Alper6. Lines and Flows 2: The Beginning and End of Borders in North AmericaAlan D. BersinPART III. BORDER GOVERNANCE IN NORTH AMERICA7. Borders in Globalization: The Twenty-First- Century Globalization and Border GovernanceEmmanuel Brunet-Jailly8. Border Narratives in a Neoliberal Era: The Central U.S.-Mexico BorderlandsKathleen Staudt9. Empowering Borderlands: Lessons from Cascadia and the Pacific NorthwestBruce AgnewPART IV. INTEGRATION AND BORDER POLICY DIRECTIONS IN NORTH AMERICA10. North American Energy Ties Across Unequal Borders: Canada-U. S.-Mexico Energy Integration in Times of Border DisruptionGuadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Michelle Keck11. Maturing Cross-Border Cooperation for Economic DevelopmentChristopher Wilson12. Comparative Examination of Binational Watershed Research in North America: From Case Studies to a Continental GestaltChristopher Brown13. A Model for Trilateral Collaboration: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation: Whither the CEC?Irasema CoronadoConclusion. Toward North American Integration?Victor Konrad and Guadalupe Correa-CabreraContributorsIndex