Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Abbreviations 9
5. Introduction 11
6. PART I: HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF DEFINING AND REDEFINING NORTH AMERICA
7. Introduction 25
8. CHAPTER 1: The "New World": Legacies of European Colonialism in North America 27
9. CHAPTER 2: Nation-building and Regionalism in the US, Canada, and Mexico 51
10. CHAPTER 3: The Roots of North American Economic Development 71
11. PART II: REDEFINING INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS: CONTINENTS, STATES, AND FEDERALISM
12. Introduction 97
13. CHAPTER 4: The Governance of North America: NAFTA's Complex Institutional Structure 101
14. CHAPTER 5: Birth of a Union: Lessons for North America from the European Union 115
15. CHAPTER 6: Globalization and the Democratic Deficit: Challenging Times for Canada's Political Institutions 133
16. CHAPTER 7: Political Institutions in the United States 157
17. CHAPTER 8: Political Institutions in Mexico 175
18. CHAPTER 9: National Institutions in North America: US, Canadian, and Mexican Federalism 195
19. PART III: REDEFINING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RELATIONS: PUBLIC POLICIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS AFTER NAFTA
20. Introduction 221
21. CHAPTER 10: North American First Peoples: Self-Determination or Economic Development? 225
22. CHAPTER 11: Default Convergence? Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in North America 251
23. CHAPTER 12: Under Pressure: The Impasses of North American Labour Movements 273
24. CHAPTER 13: Ragged Cruelty? Social Policy Transformations in North America 295
25. CHAPTER 14: Ten Years After: Continental Free Trade and Environmental Policy in North America 315
26. PART IV: REDEFINING SPATIAL RELATIONS: POST-9/11 BORDERS, MIGRATION, AND NATIONAL SECURITY
27. Introduction 337
28. CHAPTER 15: Migration in North America 339
29. CHAPTER 16: From the 49th Parallel to the Río Grande: US Homeland Security and North American 353
30. CHAPTER 17: North American Security and Foreign Policy: Does a Trilateral Community Exist? 371
31. PART V: REDEFINING CULTURAL RELATIONS: TOWARDS A NORTH AMERICAN COMMUNITY?
32. Introduction 389
33. CHAPTER 18: Economic Integration and North American Political Cultures 393
34. CHAPTER 19: Civil Society Organizing Under Continental Integration: The Promise and Limits of Community-Building "From Below" 423
35. CHAPTER 20: Performing North America as Community 441
36. CHAPTER 21: Beyond NAFTA: The Emergence and Future of North America 461
37. Notes on Contributors 477
38. Index 483