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Political Science Trade & Tariffs

Big Picture Realities

Canada and Mexico at the Crossroads

edited by Daniel Drache

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2008
Category
Trade & Tariffs, Economic Policy, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554582334
    Publish Date
    Oct 2008
    List Price
    $42.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554580453
    Publish Date
    Oct 2008
    List Price
    $45.99

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Description

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 changes.
Contributors are Canadian and Mexican scholars and leading authorities in security, immigration, human rights, foreign policy, Canada-Mexico relations, and market integration. This book is particularly valuable for public policy experts and scholars and students in international relations.

About the author

Daniel Drache is a leading expert on global trade governance and North American integration. He is the author of Borders Matter: Homeland Security and the Search for North America (2004), a revised edition of which was published in Spanish in 2007. The editor of a special edition of Canada Watch—“Deep Integration: North America Post-Bush”—he is also a member of the Centre for International Governance Innovations (CIGI) North American Portal advisory committee.

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Editorial Reviews

Big Picture Realities is a ground-breaking collection that analyzes Canada and Mexico in new and innovative ways. It is a critical contribution for rethinking integration at a time of global structural change.

José Luis Valdés-Ugalde, Director, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte(CISAN), Universidad Nacional Auténoma de México (UNAM), 2008 October

Big Picture Realities is a must read to grasp NAFTA's wide-ranging impact on Mexico and Canada. Most importantly, this collection steers the reader through the complex realities of the post-NAFTA era''--where security and immigration concerns overshadow the economic integration agendas of the 1990s--and maps out the challenges and opportunities for the Mexican and Canadian governments in the 21st century. I highly recommend it.

Eduardo Canel, Director, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, 2008 October