North American Institutes

The Wilson Center is Washington’s only think tank with full research programs on the United States’ neighbors. Wilson’s North American institutes – the Canada Institute and the Mexico Institute – provide context and insights into U.S. bilateral relationships with these countries, and work together to sponsor analysis and programs that address the entire North American region on topics such as border cooperation, shared energy and environmental challenges, the implementation of the USMCA, and North American competitiveness.

Insight & Analysis

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On the Canada-U.S. horizon: less ‘papering-over’ (of irritants), more ‘pushing back’

By Roy Norton on September 21, 2021

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Agricultural trade under the USMCA: challenges, potential solutions, and win-win opportunities

By Ellie Vorhaben on September 17, 2021

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Elections

The China Conundrum Challenging the Canadian Federal Election

By Darren Touch on September 15, 2021

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Coronavirus

What’s the Plan? U.S. Land Border Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Cecily Fasanella on September 1, 2021

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North America Experts

Christopher Sands

Director, Canada Institute

Andrew I. Rudman

Director, Mexico Institute

Earl Anthony Wayne

Public Policy Fellow

U.S.-Mexico relations are deeply intertwined. Key issues of mutual importance are both international and domestic. These “inter-mestic” issues impact the lives of tens of millions of people on both sides of the border. Americans and Mexicans thus have big stakes in assuring that The United States and Mexico working can tackle shared problems and find good solutions to the vital issues that tie them together, including trade, jobs, crime, border, security, migration, tourism, education exchanges, a shared environment and much more.