Historically, national borders have evolved in ways that serve the
interests of central states in security and the regulation of
trade. Security. Cooperation. Governance. explores
Canada–US border and security policies that have evolved from
successive trade agreements since the 1950s, punctuated by new and
emerging challenges to security in the twenty-first century. The
sectoral and geographical diversity of cross-border interdependence
of what remains the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship
makes the US–Canada border a living laboratory for studying the
interaction of trade, security, and other border policies that
challenge traditional centralized approaches to national security.
The book’s findings show that border governance straddles
multiple regional, sectoral, and security scales in ways rarely
documented in such detail. These developments have precipitated an
Open Border Paradox: extensive, regionally varied flows of trade
and people have resulted in a series of nested but interdependent
security regimes that function on different scales and vary across
economic and policy sectors. These realities have given rise to
regional and sectoral specialization in related security regimes.
For instance, just-in-time automotive production in the Great Lakes
region varies considerably from the governance of maritime and
intermodal trade (and port systems) on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts, which in turn is quite different from commodity-based
systems that manage diverse agricultural and food trade in the
Canadian Prairies and U.S. Great Plains. The paradox of open
borders and their legitimacy is a function of robust bilateral and
multilevel governance based on effective partnerships with substate
governments and the private sector. Effective policy accounts for
regional variation in integrated binational security and trade
imperatives. At the same time, binational and continental policies
are embedded in each country’s trade and security relationships
beyond North America.
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