National solutions to trans-border problems? : the governance of security and risk in a post-NAFTA North America / [edited] by Isidro Morales.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Post-NAFTA North America. National Solutions to Cross-Border Problems?: Introduction; Sitting in Limbo: the North American Free Trade Agreement, Carol Wise; Governing the North America Free Trade Area: international rule-making and delegation in NAFTA, the SPP, and beyond, Louis Bélanger; The governance of mobility and risk in a post-NAFTA rebordered North America, Isidro Morales. Part 2 The Governance of Continental Security. Is it Possible to Move to a Common Approach?: Is there an integrated electricity market in North America? Institutional challenges in Mexico, Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez; Continental borders and national security: a logical diagnosis, Stephen Clarkson; The North American Partnership for Security and Prosperity (SPP) and the development of the Northern border region of Mexico, José M. Ramos; Plan Colombia and the Mérida initiative: policy twins or distant cousins?, John Bailey; Overcoming the perceived objections and actual obstacles to a North American continental common transborder security (NACTS), D. Rick van Schoik; Globalization and regionalization in North America: security and prosperity. Is there a place for Latin America in the US geopolitical picture?, José Luis Valdés Ugalde and Bernadette Vega. Part 3 The Governance of Territorial Borders and Bilateral Relations: Borderlands: risky spaces or safe places? 'Real and imaginary' borders {u2013} (re)framing identity and privilege, Elaine Correa; Nationalist policies, immigration, and policy boomerangs: 'three strikes and you could be in', Imtiaz Hussein; What's in a visa? Considerations of the Canada-Mexico relationship within North America's security discussions, Olga Abizaid; The North American space reviewed under bilateral Canadian-Mexican relation, Susana Chacón

'Triggered by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada, the United States and Mexico redefined their public policies to facilitate the regionalization of transactions. However, this volume addresses the institutional gaps that still remain focusing mainly on the cross-border governance of security aspects. It gathers interdisciplinary contributions of specialists working on continental issues within Canada, the United States and Mexico and highlights the transnational dimension of certain issues still managed under national-framed policies. Furthermore, it explores the possibilities and constraints for moving public policy into new cross-border governance strategies. Divided in three parts, the first part assesses what is at stake in cross-border governance issues and whether the integrative trend in the region will be maintained or stalled in the years to come. The second part explores the growing scope of security problems interconnected with borders, migration, energy and drug trafficking across the region. It highlights how Mexico and Canada are responding or adapting their policy choices to a continental security approach framed by the US after the terrorist attacks of September 11, and to the major concerns of the Obama administration. The third part focuses on the governance of territorial borders and bilateral affairs, id est Mexico-US and Canada-Mexico relations