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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155223403321

Titolo

Big Picture Realities : Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads / / Daniel Drache, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-50155-0

9786612501555

1-55458-233-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

327.71072

Soggetti

Libre-echange - Mexique

Libre-echange - Canada

Securite nationale - Amerique du Nord

Free trade - Mexico

Free trade - Canada

National security - North America

Electronic books.

Amerique du Nord Integration economique

Mexique Relations exterieures Canada

Canada Relations exterieures Mexique

North America Economic integration

Mexico Foreign relations Canada

Canada Foreign relations Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Big Picture Realities in a Post-NAFTA Era; Part 1 NAFTA: A Closed Chapter or a Fresh Start?; Part 2 The Inescapable Border: Immigration Flows, Human Rights, and Political Refugees; Part 3 The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy: Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads; Part 4 North American Security Perimeter: The Mega Agenda; Part 5 Open Regionalism and the National Interest: New Dynamics of Divergence; Part 6 Asian Turbo-Capitalism and the Brazilian Miracle: Winners and Losers?; Part 7 Building the



Canada-Mexico Relationship: Thinking Outside the Box

ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

In the post-NAFTA era, Canada and Mexico face dramatic and irreversible changes from the Bush revolution in foreign public policy, the rising economic power of China and India, new concerns about border security and human rights, and the trends of economic integration. The essays in Big Picture Realities: Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads address the sea change in the political economic order of North America and chronicle the attempts of Canada and Mexico, two very different societies, to come to terms with the accumulated and often contradictory effects of micro and macro change