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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777955903321

Autore

Hussain A. Imtiaz <1953->

Titolo

North American homeland security [[electronic resource] ] : back to bilateralism? / / Imtiaz Hussain, Satya R. Pattnayak, and Anil Hira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Security International, , 2008

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-69199-7

1-282-42096-8

9786612420962

0-313-35687-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

PSI reports

Altri autori (Persone)

HiraAnil

PattnayakSatya R

Disciplina

363.34/56

Soggetti

Free trade - North America

National security - Economic aspects - North America

National security - United States

United States Defenses Economic aspects

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; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 North America's 9/11 Dilemma: Puzzles, Payoffs, and the Institutional/Procedural Matrix; 2 U.S. Homeland Security and Post-9/11 North American Integration: The Homeland Era; 3 Asymmetry Squeezing Out Trilateralism? Canadian Ambivalence on U.S. Strategic Primacy; 4 Mexico and Homeland Security: Revolving Doors and Transient Interests; 5 Canada-U.S. Relations Since 9/11: Putting Humpty-Dumpty Back Together?; 6 Post-9/11 Mexico-U.S. Relations: Green Pastures, Rough Patches, Muddled Outcomes; 7 Canada, Mexico, and Homeland Security: Oddballs

8 9/11, Theory, and the North America Idea: Trilateralism on Trial?9 Conclusions: North American Tango-Only For Two; Notes; Appendix: Investigative Questions; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Did 9/11 revive a North American guns-butter trade-off? Established in the largest administrative overhaul since World War II, the Department



of Homeland Security was charged with keeping the United States safe within a wider security community, but confronted the Washington Consensus-based Western Hemisphere free trade movement, beginning with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and extending to the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in 2003, to materialize a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) compact. Whether 9/11 restrictions impeded these trade-related thrusts or