Borders and Bridges

Canada's Policy Relations in North America

Edited by Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale

Expert Scholars: Respected contributors from Canada and the United States explore the interaction of Canada's domestic and international public policies, offering students an authoritative treatment of Canada's policy relations today.
Comparative Approach: Examines differences in policies and processes between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, giving students a balanced perspective of North American relations.
Contextual Analysis: Looks at issues of 'trilateralism' or 'dual bilateralism' in influencing Canadian policy, offering students a sense of the interrelatedness of Canada, the US, and Mexico, but also of their distinctness as individual countries.
Breadth: Offers thorough coverage of all salient areas of Canadian domestic and international policy in a North American context.
Current, Cutting-Edge: Discussions focus on changes in policy areas post-CUFTA, NAFTA, and 9/11.
Instructional Tools: Bolded key terms/glossary, discussion questions, and a list of additional readings for each chapter aid student understanding of the subject matter.

Borders and Bridges

Canada's Policy Relations in North America

Edited by Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale

Description

Borders and Bridges in North America is an edited collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars from Canada and the United States that examines Canada's policy relations within a North American context. Grounded in the idea that Canadian policy is contextual-heavily influenced by both North American and global forces-editors Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale trace policy changes from the signing of CUFTA, through NAFTA and 9/11 to the present, with a principal focus on the last decade.

Looking at policy through a comparative lens, the text considers the contexts and factors that shape policy areas within Canada, the US, and Mexico, offering cross-comparisons and an in-depth look at their complex political, economic, and social relationships. Throughout individual chapters, the volume's contributing authors discuss their specific policy areas within this 'trilateral' or 'dual-bilateral' framework.

Organized into three parts, the first establishes the theoretical framework for comparative analysis; the second narrows the focus to significant sectoral issues; and the third focuses on trade patterns and platforms. Sectoral subsections cover a broad range of policy areas including border management, security, the North, energy and environmental policies, immigration, labour, cultural relations, transportation, and trade.

Borders and Bridges

Canada's Policy Relations in North America

Edited by Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale

1. Borders and Bridges: Canada's Policy Relations in North America, Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale
Part I: Structural Issues: Theory and Horizontal Policy Issues
2. North American Economic Integration and Comparative Responses to Globalization--Overview, Geoffrey Hale and Stephen Blank
3. Fragmegration, Federalism, and Canada-United States Relations, Greg Anderson and Christopher Sands
4. Soft Law Regulatory Coordination and Convergence in North America, John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert
Part II: Sectoral Policy Issues
Section One: Border Management and Defence
5. The Same Yet Different: The Evolution of the Post-9/11 Canada-United States Security Relationship, Bernard J. Brister
6. Border Security, Trade, and Travel Facilitation, Geoffrey Hale and Christina Marcotte
7. The North in Canadian-American Relations: Searching for Collaboration in Melting Seas, Douglas C. Nord
Section Two: Energy and Environmental Policies
8. Canada's Energy Policy Relations in North America: Towards Harmonization and Supranational Approaches?, Monica Gattinger
9. Natural Boundaries and National Borders: Barriers to Progress and Bridges to Collaboration in North American Transborder Environmental Governance, D. Rick Van Schoik, John Kirton, and Jenilee Guebert
10. Canadian Climate Policy and the North American Influence, Douglas Macdonald and Debora L. VanNijnatten
11. Governing Water Across the Canada-US Borderland, Emma S. Norman and Karen Bakker
Section Three: Migration, Labour, and Cultural Policies
12. Canadian Migration Policy in a North American Framework: Perspectives and Prospects, Tamara M. Woroby
13. Labour on the Side: Shallow North American Governance and the Fate of Canadian and US Workers, Laura Macdonald
14. Identity, Independence, and Imperialism: The Case of Canadian-American Cultural Relations, Kevin V. Mulcahy
Part III: Trade Patterns and Platforms for Trade
15. Sub-Federal Trade and the Politics of North American Economic Integration: Evaluating the Cross- Border Exports of American States, Christopher J. Kukucha
16. The Persistence of Country-Specific Financial Market Regulation in the Face of Free Trade Agreements, Anita I. Anand
17. Borders and Brides: Free Trade, Supply Chains and the Creation of a Joint Trading Platform: Canada-US Industrial Development 1980-2001, Guy Stanley
18. Canada-US Transportation and Corridor Policies, Stephen Blank and Barry Prentice
19. Agricultural Trade and Food Safety, William A. Kerr and Jill E. Hobbs
20. Variable Geometry and Traffic Circles: Navigating Canada's Policy Relations in North America, Geoffrey Hale and Monica Gattinger

Borders and Bridges

Canada's Policy Relations in North America

Edited by Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale

Author Information

Monica Gattinger is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa in Canada. She has written book chapters and journal articles, and has co-authored and co-edited books on Canadian and North American energy policies, and Canadian cultural policy.

Geoffrey Hale is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge in Canada. He has published numerous articles on various aspects of Canada-U.S. relations, including issues of border management and security, and on the influence of North American integration on Canadian federalism and the policy capacity of Canadian governments. He is also author of The Politics of Taxation in Canada and Uneasy Partnership.

Contributors:

Stephen Blank
Christopher Sands
Greg Anderson
John Kirton
Jenilee Guebert
Bernard J. Brister
Christina Marcotte
Douglas C. Nord
D. Rick Van Schoik
John Kirton
Jenilee Guebert
Douglas Macdonald
Debora L. Van Nijnatten
Emma S. Norman
Karen Bakker
Tamara M. Woroby
Laura Macdonald
Kevin V. Mulcahy
Christopher J. Kukucha
Anita I. Anand
Guy Stanley
Stephen Blank
Barry Prentice
William A. Kerr
Jill E. Hobbs

Borders and Bridges

Canada's Policy Relations in North America

Edited by Monica Gattinger and Geoffrey Hale

Reviews and Awards

"In short, it is an overdue and much needed book-creating a conversation in the field of comparative policy relations and suggesting ways in which the field should continue to be studied." --Dr Melissa Haussman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Carleton University