Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction. The International Boundary Perimeter of the United States of America: Two Borders and Many Borderlands
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Victor Konrad
North American Borders in Maps
PART I. REPLACING BORDERS BETWEEN MEXICO, THE UNITED STATES, AND CANADA
1. Actors, Strategic Fields, and Game Rules: Examining Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Twenty-First Century
Tony Payan
2. Reimagining the Border Between Canada and the United States
Victor Konrad
3. Twenty-First- Century North American Borders: More Fixed, Fuzzy, Flexible, Fluid, or Free? Sovereignty Lesson from Around the Globe
Rick Van Schoik
PART II. SPACES, DIVISIONS, AND CONNECTIVITY IN NORTH AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
4. Transborder Spaces and Regional Identity in North America
Francisco Lara-Valencia
5. Territorial Divisive and Connective Spaces: Shifting Meanings of Borders in the North American Borderlands
Donald K. Alper
6. Lines and Flows 2: The Beginning and End of Borders in North America
Alan D. Bersin
PART III. BORDER GOVERNANCE IN NORTH AMERICA
7. Borders in Globalization: The Twenty-First- Century Globalization and Border Governance
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
8. Border Narratives in a Neoliberal Era: The Central U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Kathleen Staudt
9. Empowering Borderlands: Lessons from Cascadia and the Pacific Northwest
Bruce Agnew
PART IV. INTEGRATION AND BORDER POLICY DIRECTIONS IN NORTH AMERICA
10. North American Energy Ties Across Unequal Borders: Canada-U. S.-Mexico Energy Integration in Times of Border Disruption
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Michelle Keck
11. Maturing Cross-Border Cooperation for Economic Development
Christopher Wilson
12. Comparative Examination of Binational Watershed Research in North America: From Case Studies to a Continental Gestalt
Christopher Brown
13. A Model for Trilateral Collaboration: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation: Whither the CEC?
Irasema Coronado

Conclusion. Toward North American Integration?
Victor Konrad and Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and nonresident scholar at the Baker Institute's Mexico Center at Rice University. Correa-Cabrera is also co-editor of the International Studies Perspectives (ISP) journal.

Victor Konrad teaches geography at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is a former president of both the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and the Association for Borderlands Scholars, and he is a recipient of the Donner Medal. Author of more than one hundred publications, he has been the founding director of the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program and a visiting professor at universities in China, the United States, and Europe.

Reviews

With essays by leading border scholars and practitioners, this book provides superb analysis of how evolving globalization and the security imperative have redefined the shared borders and border regions of the USA, Canada, and Mexico. North American Borders in Comparative Perspective is a key resource for students, scholars, the policy community, and community activists who want to understand these critical border regions of North America." - Paul Ganster, co-author of The U.S.-Mexico Border into the Twenty-First Century