Canada-U.S. Security and the Economy in the North American Context
Author: Henry T. King
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 399
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Author: Henry T. King
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 399
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Andreas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1136727647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders are the two busiest land crossings in the world. Canada and the United States are each other's largest trading partners and Mexico is America's second largest trading partner with trade between the two nations more than tripling since the start of NAFTA. The many immediate ripple effects of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon included a dramatic tightening of North American border controls and a hardening of the policy discourse about cross-border flows. This is the first book that explores the implications of September 11th and the new war on terrorism for border controls, cross-border relations, and economic integration in North America. The volume makes a unique contribution to important scholarly and policy discussions over the meaning and management of borders in an increasingly borderless (regional and global) economy, and adds fuel to broader debates over the changing nature of borders and territorial politics in a radically transformed security environment.
Author: Diane Francis
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1443424412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo two nations in the world are as integrated, economically and socially, as are the United States and Canada. We share geography, values and the largest unprotected border in the world. Regardless of this close friendship, our two countries are on a slow-motion collision course—with each other and with the rest of the world. While we wrestle with internal political gridlock and fiscal challenges and clash over border problems, the economies of the larger world change and flourish. Emerging economies sailed through the meltdown of 2008. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that by 2018, China's economy will be bigger than that of the United States; when combined with India, Japan and the four Asian Tigers—South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong--China's economy will be bigger than that of the G8 (minus Japan). Rather than continuing on this road to mutual decline, our two nations should chart a new course. Bestselling author Diane Francis proposes a simple and obvious solution: What if the United States and Canada merged into one country? The most audacious initiative since the Louisiana Purchase would solve the biggest problems each country expects to face: the U.S.'s national security threats and declining living standards; and Canada's difficulty controlling and developing its huge land mass stemming from a lack of capital, workers, technology and military might. Merger of the Century builds both a strong political argument and a compelling business case, treating our two countries not only as sovereign entities but as merging companies. We stand on the cusp of a new world order. Together, by marshalling resources and combining efforts, Canada and America have a greater chance of succeeding. As separate nations, the future is in much greater doubt indeed.
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this report is to examine the future of Canada's relations with the United States and Mexico, seeking to advance those relations in ways that serve Canada's sovereign interests, promote Canadian values, and enhance the long-term security and prosperity of Canadians. Part 1 of the report discusses concerns about Canada's sovereignty in the context of continental integration, and looks at the ongoing effects on Canadian policy of the September 11 terrorist attacks. It provides a detailed overview of growing economic linkages within North America, and reviews other significant societal trends and variations within and across the 3 countries. Part 2 looks at Canada-US security concerns, notably at air, land and sea borders, and at defence arrangements. It looks at ways to improve existing bilateral and trilateral trade and investment flows, and examines the major elements in developing effective political strategies for managing Canada's North American relations.
Author: National Defense University (U S )
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2011-12-27
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.
Author: John B. Sutcliffe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-11-02
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1351790382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorders are critical to the development and survival of modern states, offer security against external threats, and mark public policy and identity difference. At the same time, borders, and borderlands, are places where people, ideas, and economic goods meet and intermingle. The United States-Canada border demonstrates all of the characteristics of modern borders, and epitomises the debates that surround them. This book examines the development of the US-Canada border, provides a detailed analysis of its current operation, and concludes with an evaluation of the border’s future. The central objective is to examine how the border functions in practice, presenting a series of case studies on its operation. This book will be of interest to scholars of North American integration and border studies, and to policy practitioners, who will be particularly interested in the case studies and what they say about the impact of border reform.
Author: Donald Barry
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1995-03-29
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPonders whether the North American Free Trade Act is the first stroke of forging an integrated community on the continent or just the glancing off of a spark that will cool and die midst the ashes of previous visions. Most of the 14 essays are from an October 1993 conference on NAFTA in Calgary. They move beyond economic analysis to look at national values and policies, security concerns, and the history of US expansionism and Canadian and Mexican resistance. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Gordon T. Stewart
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 1992-07-31
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0870139576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCanadians long have engaged in in-depth, wide-ranging discussions about their nation's relations with the United States. On the other hand, American citizens usually have been satisfied to accept a series of unexamined myths about their country's unchanging, benign partnership with the "neighbor to the north". Although such perceptions of uninterrupted, friendly relations with Canada may dominate American popular opinion, not to mention discussions in many American scholarly and political circles, they should not, according to Stewart, form the bases for long-term U.S. international economic, political, and cultural relations with Canada. Stewart describes and analyzes the evolution of U.S. policymaking and U.S. policy thinking toward Canada, from the tense and confrontational post-Revolutionary years to the signing of the Free Trade Agreement in 1988, to discover if there are any permanent characteristics of American policies and attitudes with respect to Canada. American policymakers were concerned for much of the period before World War II with Canada's role in the British empire, often regarded as threatening, or at least troubling, to developing U.S. hegemony in North America and even, in the late nineteenth century, to U.S. trade across the Pacific. A permanent goal of U.S. policymakers was to disengage Canada from that empire. They also thought that Canada's natural geographic and economic orientation was southward to the U.S., and policymakers were critical of Canadian efforts to construct an east- west economy. The Free Trade Agreement of 1988 which prepared the way for north-south lines of economic force, in this context, had been an objective of U.S. foreign policy since the founding of the republic in 1776. At the same time, however, these deep-seated U.S. goals were often undermined by domestic lobbies and political factors within the U.S., most evidently during the era of high tariffs from the 1860s to the 1930s when U.S. tariff policies actually encouraged a separate, imperially-backed economic and cultural direction in Canada. When the dramatic shift toward integration in trade, investment, defense and even popular culture began to take hold in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s in the wake of the Depression and World War II, American policymakers viewed themselves as working in harmony with underlying, "natural" converging economic, political and cultural trends recognized and accepted by their Canadian counterparts.
Author: Edelgard Mahant
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0774842245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdelgard Mahant and Graeme Mount examine details of White House policy from 1945 to the 1980s to assess the extent to which the United States could be said to have had a Canada policy. They challenge the popular nationalist view that Canada has been treated as peripheral and dependent, but also counter the opposing view that Washington has respected Canadian advice and benefitted from it. Instead, they argue that for the most part Canada has mattered little in Washington and that America's Canada policy is largely an ad hoc affair.
Author: Geoffrey E. Hale
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 412
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars from Canada and the United States examines Canada's policy relations within a North American context. Contributors trace policy changes from the signing of CUFTA and NAFTA, through 9/11, and up to the present day. North American policy areas covered include: border management, security, the North, energy and environmental policies, immigration, cultural relations, and labour. Current and comprehensive, Borders and Bridges is the ideal text for students of Canada's international policy relations.