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Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community - From the Civil War to Today (Hardcover)
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Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community - From the Civil War to Today (Hardcover)
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Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community
focuses on three diasporas and their impact on North American
security relations, the Irish and Germans, which were mainly in the
US, and the Muslim diaspora, which is based in both countries. The
book begins by examining the evolution of North America from a zone
of war to a zone of peace (i.e., a security community), starting
with the debate over the nature and meaning of the Canada-US
border. It then assesses the role of ethnic diasporas in North
American security, looking as to whether ethnic interest groups
have been gaining influence over the shaping of the US foreign
policy. This debate is also valid in Canada, especially given the
practice of federal political parties of catering to blocs of
ethnic voters. The second section of the book focuses on three case
studies. The first examines the impact of the Irish Americans on
the quality of security relations between the US and the UK, and
therefore between the former and Canada. The second looks at an
even larger diaspora, the German Americans, whose political agenda
by the start of twentieth century attempted to discourage
Anglo-American entente and eventual alliance. The final case
concentrates on the debates around the North American Muslim
diaspora in the past two decades, a time when policy attention
turned toward the greater Middle East, which in many ways
constitute the "kin community" of this politically active diaspora.
This comparative assessment of the three cases provides
contextualization for today's discussion of homegrown terrorism and
its implication for bilateral security cooperation in North
America.
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