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.

Jonathan Paquin is an associate professor of political science and director of the International Peace and Security Program at Université Laval. Patrick James is Dornsife Dean’s Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.

Contributors: Donald E. Abelson, Louis Bélanger, Yan Cimon, Stephen Clarkson, Charles F. Doran, David G. Haglund, Frank P. Harvey, Athanasios Hristoulas, Philippe Lagassé, Justin Massie, Mark Paradis, Isabelle Vagnoux

Greg Anderson, co-editor of Forgotten Partnership Redux: Canada-U.S. Relations in the 21st Century:
Game Changer represents a one-stop shopping experience for those who have not been following developments in North American security since 9/11, as well as a distillation of that body of thought for those who have. It makes an explicit effort to consider all three countries – Canada, the United States, and Mexico – in its analysis, something that is hard to find in most comparable volumes.