Game changer : the impact of 9/11 on North American security / edited by Jonathan Paquin and Patrick James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paquin, Jonathan.

James, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

National security--North America.

National security.

North America--Foreign relations.

North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US policy makers focused less on how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and more on security and sovereignty. Security experts tend to view the events that followed within a bilateral framework. Game Changer broadens the canvas examining how America's desire to keep its two borders closed to threats but open to trade has influenced Canada and Mexico. The contributors draw on international relations theory to examine and explain not only how post-911 security policy has transformed relations between the three countries but also how policy makers can reconcile the need for greater regional cooperation in the security realm with national autonomy in other areas of life. By adopting a truly North American, or trilateral, framework, this challenging and authoritative volume suggests new approaches to security in the post-9/11 world.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Notes""; ""Part I: Theoretical Explanations of Post-9/11 Security Relations""; ""1 Was 9/11 a Watershed?""; ""Notes""; ""2 The Homeland Security Dilemma""; ""Notes""; ""3 Toward Greater Opportunism""; ""Notes""; ""4 Canada, the United States, and Continental Security after 9/11""; ""Notes""; ""5 Canada-US Security Cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership""; ""Notes""; ""Part II: Significant Developments in North American Security and Defence""

""6 The Disintegrative Effects of North America�s Securitization on the Canada-Mexico Relationship""""Notes""; ""7 Mexico�s Ambiguous Foreign Policy toward North America""; ""Notes""; ""8 From the Border Partnership Agreement to the Twenty-First-Century Border""; ""Notes""; ""9 National Interest or Self-Interest?""; ""Notes""; ""10 A Common “Bilateral� Vision""; ""Notes""; ""11 Defence Policy and the Aerospace and Defence Industry in North America""; ""Notes""; ""12 The Canada-US Alliance in the Post-9/11 Context""; ""Notes""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""

""Contributors""""Index""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2014).

ISBN:

0-7748-2708-4

OCLC:

876860886