Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: North America in Question 1
6. PART I. North America and Political-Economic Turbulence
7. 1 Global Economic Crisis and Regionalism in North America: Region-ness in Question? 33
8. 2 Immovable Object or Unstoppable Force? Economic Crisis and the Social Construction of North America 53
9. 3 Continental Governance, Post-Crisis: Where Is North America Going? 85
10. 4 The Mexican Political Security Crisis: Implications for the North American Community 111
11. PART II. North American Problems without North American Governance
12. 5 North American Community from Above and from Below: Working-Class Perspectives on Economic Integration and Crisis 145
13. 6 Environment and Energy: Prospects for New Forms of Continental Governance 171
14. 7 Borders and Security in North America 196
15. 8 Continental Dissonance? The Politics of Migration in North America 219
16. PART III. Democratic Deficits, New Actors, and Responses to the Crisis
17. 9 Plus Ça Change: Double Bilateralism and the Demise of Trilateralism 249
18. 10 Paradiplomacy: States and Provinces in the Emerging Governance Structure of North America 277
19. 11 (Re)Thinking the ‘New’ North America through Women’s Citizenship Struggles in Mexico 309
20. 12 Democratic Deficits and the Role of Civil Society in North America: The SPP and Beyond 334
21. Conclusion: Will North America Survive? 361
22. Index 391