Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11
New book published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press assesses coherence and power in regional North America
WASHINGTON—Woodrow Wilson Center Press has published a new book, Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent after NAFTA and 9/11, by Stephen Clarkson. It is copublished with University of Toronto Press.
In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.
Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual question by looking at the institutions created by NAFTA, a broad selection of economic sectors, and the security policies put in place by the three neighboring countries following 9/11. This detailed, meticulously researched, and up-to-date treatment of North America's transborder governance allows the reader to see to what extent the United States' dominance in the continent has been enhanced or mitigated by trilateral connections with its two continental partners.
An illuminating product of seven years' political-economy, international-relations, and policy research, Does North America Exist? is an ambitious and path-breaking study that will be essential reading for those wanting to understand whether the continent containing the world's most powerful nation is holding its own as a global region.
"Stephen Clarkson's Does North America Exist? is an excellent, comprehensive, and encyclopedic examination of many important areas of public policy; a must-read for public officials in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico as well as anyone interested in North American relations, globalization, and international relations." —Peter Karl Kresl, Department of Economics, Bucknell University
Stephen Clarkson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been both a Fellow and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Does North America Exist? is distributed by University of Toronto Press, accessible online at www.utppublishing.com or by telephone at 1-800-565-9523. The list price is C$95.00 for hardback and C$29.95 for paperback.
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