Game Changer: The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security

The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US policy makers focused less on how they could better integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and more on security and sovereignty. Security experts tend to view the events that followed within a bilateral framework. Game Changer broadens the canvas examining how America's desire to keep its two borders closed to threats but open to trade has influenced Canada and Mexico. The contributors draw on international relations theory to examine and explain not only how post-911 security policy has transformed relations between the three countries but also how policy makers can reconcile the need for greater regional cooperation in the security realm with national autonomy in other areas of life. By adopting a truly North American, or trilateral, framework, this challenging and authoritative volume suggests new approaches to security in the post-9/11 world.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Changing Contours of North American Security / Jonathan Paquin and Patrick James Part 1: Theoretical Explanations of Post-9/11 Security Relations 1 Was 9/11 a Watershed? / Charles F. Doran 2 The Homeland Security Dilemma: Assessing the Implications for Canada-US Border Security Negotiations / Frank P. Harvey 3 Toward Greater Opportunism: Balancing and Bandwagoning in Canada-US Relations / Justin Massie 4 Canada, the United States, and Continental Security after 9/11: An Assessment Based on Attribution Theory / Mark Paradis and Patrick James 5 Canada-US Security Cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership: An Autopsy Report / Jonathan Paquin and Louis Bélanger Part 2: Significant Developments in North American Security and Defence 6 The Disintegrative Effects of North America's Securitization on the Canada-Mexico Relationship / Stephen Clarkson 7 Mexico's Ambiguous Foreign Policy toward North America / Athanasios Hristoulas 8 From the Border Partnership Agreement to the Twenty-First-Century Border: Enforcing Security on the US-Mexico Border / Isabelle Vagnoux 9 National Interest or Self-Interest? Advocacy Think Tanks, 9/11, and the Future of North American Security / Donald E. Abelson 10 A Common "Bilateral" Vision: North American Defence Cooperation, 2001-12 / Philippe Lagassé 11 Defence Policy and the Aerospace and Defence Industry in North America: The Changing Contours of the Post-9/11 Era / Yan Cimon 12 The Canada-US Alliance in the Post-9/11 Context: Any Room for Mexico? / David G. Haglund Conclusion: Continental Security – What Now? / Jonathan Paquin and Patrick James Bibliography; Index

About the Author :
Jonathan Paquin is an associate professor of political science and director of the International Peace and Security Program at Université Laval. Patrick James is Dornsife Dean's Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. Contributors: Donald E. Abelson, Louis Bélanger, Yan Cimon, Stephen Clarkson, Charles F. Doran, David G. Haglund, Frank P. Harvey, Athanasios Hristoulas, Philippe Lagassé, Justin Massie, Mark Paradis, Isabelle Vagnoux