Twenty years after NAFTA, the consensus seems to be that the
regional project in North America is dead. The trade agreement was
never followed up by new institutions that might cement a more
ambitious regional community. The Security and Prosperity
Partnership (SPP), launched with some fanfare in 2005, was quietly
discontinued in 2009. And new cooperative ventures like the
US-Canada Beyond the Border talks and the US-Mexico Merida
Initiative suggest that the three governments have reverted to the
familiar, pre-NAFTA pattern of informal, incremental bilateralism.
One could argue, however, that NAFTA itself has been buried, and
yet the region somehow lives on, albeit in a form very different
from regional integration in other parts of the world. A diverse
group of contributors, from the United States, Canada, and Mexico,
with experience in academia, government service, think tanks and
the private sector bring to bear a sophisticated and much needed
examination of regional governance in North America, its historical
origins, its connection to the regional distribution of power and
the respective governments' domestic institutions, and the variance
of its forms and function across different issue areas. The editors
begin by surveying the literature on North American regional
politics, matching up developments there with parallel debates and
controversies in the broader literatures on comparative regional
integration and international policy coordination more generally.
Six contributors later explore the mechanisms of policy
coordination in specific issue-areas, each with an emphasis on a
particular set of actors, and with its own way of characterizing
the relevant political and diplomatic dynamics. Chapters on the
political context for regional policy coordination follow leading
to concluding remarks on the future of North America. At a time
when scholarly interest in North America seems to be waning, even
while important and interesting political and economic developments
are taking place, this volume will reinvigorate the study of North
America as a region, to better understand its past, present and
future.
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