Politics in North America

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is the Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights and a professor of political science at the University of Alberta. Radha Jhappan is Associate Professor at Carleton University in the Department of Political Science. She has published in the areas of indigenous peoples' politics and law, Canadian socio-political history, constitutional law and politics, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, race and gender in feminist theory, and feminist legal theory and litigation strategies.François Rocher is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He has held a similar position at Carleton University, where he was also director of the School of Canadian Studies. He is the co-editor, with Miriam Smith, of New Trends in Canadian Federalism (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and has extensively published on constitutional politics, intergovernmental relations, immigration, and citizenship in Canada.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction, Radha Jhappan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban Part I: History and the Politics of Defining and Redefining North America Introduction   1. The "New World": Legacies of European Colonialism in North America, Radha Jhappan 2. Nation-building and Regionalism in the US, Canada, and Mexico, Claude Couture 3. The Roots of North American Economic Development, Teresa Gutierrez-Haces Part II: Redefining Institutional Relations: Continents, States, and Federalism  Introduction   4. The Governance of North America: NAFTA's Complex Institutional Structure, Stephen Clarkson and Roopa Rangaswami 5. Birth of a Union: Lessons for North America from the European Union, Vincent Della Sala 6. Globalization and the Democratic Deficit: Challenging Times for Canada's Political Institutions, Samuel A. Bottomley  7. Political Institutions in the United States, Ross E. Burkhart 8. Political Institutions in Mexico, Jose A. Crespo, Norma Borrego, and Ana Luz Ruelas 9. National Institutions in North America: US, Canadian, and Mexican Federalism, François Rocher and Gordon DiGiacomo Part III: Redefining Economic and Social Relations: Public Policies and Human Rights after NAFTA Introduction   10. North American First Peoples: Self-Determination or Economic Development? Julian Castro-Rea and Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez 11. Default Convergence? Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in North America, David Schneiderman 12. Under Pressure: The Impasses of North American Labour Movements, Gregory Albo and Dan Crow 13. Ragged Cruelty? Social Policy Transformations in North America, Lois Harder and Marcus Taylor 14. Ten Years After: Continental Free Trade and Environmental Policy in North America, Luc Juillet Part IV: Redefining Spatial Relations: Post 9/11 Borders, Migration, and National Security Introduction   15. Migration in North America, Yasmeen Abu-Laban 16. From the 49th Parallel to the Río Grande: US Homeland Security and North American Borders, Christina Gabriel and Laura Macdonald 17. North American Security and Foreign Policy: Does a Trilateral Community Exist? Athanasios Hristoulas and Stephane Roussel Part V: Redefining Cultural Relations: Towards a North American Community? Introduction   18. Economic Integration and North American Political Cultures, Stephen White and Neil Nevitte 19. Civil Society Organizing Under Continental Integration: The Promise and Limits of Community-Building "From Below," Jeffrey M. Ayres 20. Performing North America as Community, Janine Brodie 21. Beyond NAFTA: The Emergence and Future of North America, Robert A. Pastor Notes on Contributors Index