Politics

Comparative Politics
North American Studies
Making North America: Trade, Security,
and Integration
James Thompson (Hiram College)
2014 / 6 x 9 / paper / 200 pp / 978-1-4426-1426-0
US & CDN $24.95
Available as an ebook
In Making North America, James Thompson uses the Canada–US
Free Trade Agreement of 1988 and the North American Free Trade
Agreement of 1994 to demonstrate that there has been an often
unrecognized impulse behind the process of North American integration:
national security. Featuring interviews with key decision-makers,
including Brian Mulroney, George H.W. Bush, and Carlos Salinas, it provides a rigorous analysis of
the role national security has played in North American integration.
North America in Question: Regional Integration
in an Era of Economic Turbulence
Edited by Jeffrey Ayres (St. Michael’s College)
and Laura Macdonald (Carleton University)
2012 / 6 x 9 / paper / 416 pp / 978-1-4426-1114-6
US & CDN $36.95
Available as an ebook
In North America in Question, leading analysts from Canada, the
United States, and Mexico provide theoretically innovative and rich
empirical reflections on current challenges sweeping the continent.
Their essays address concerns that go beyond NAFTA and economic
issues, including labour, immigration, energy, the environment, quality of citizenship, borders,
women’s and civil society struggles, and democratic deficits.
The Labyrinth of North American Identities
Philip Resnick (University of British Columbia)
2012 / 5.5 x 8.5 / paper / 160 pp / 978-1-4426-0552-7
US & CDN $25.95
Available as an ebook
What exactly does it mean to be North American? Europeans have
been engaged in a long-running debate about the meaning and
nature of Europe. The Labyrinth of North American Identities generates
a similar discussion in the context of North America: what do we
learn about North America as a unit and its individual countries when
we explore the idea of a North American identity?
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