Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: North America in Question

PART I. North America and Political-Economic Turbulence

1 Global Economic Crisis and Regionalism in North America: Region-ness in Question?

2 Immovable Object or Unstoppable Force? Economic Crisis and the Social Construction of North America

3 Continental Governance, Post-Crisis: Where Is North America Going?

4 The Mexican Political Security Crisis: Implications for the North American Community

PART II. North American Problems without North American Governance

5 North American Community from Above and from Below: Working-Class Perspectives on Economic Integration and Crisis

6 Environment and Energy: Prospects for New Forms of Continental Governance

7 Borders and Security in North America

8 Continental Dissonance? The Politics of Migration in North America

PART III. Democratic Deficits, New Actors, and Responses to the Crisis

9 Plus Ça Change: Double Bilateralism and the Demise of Trilateralism

10 Paradiplomacy: States and Provinces in the Emerging Governance Structure of North America

11 (Re)Thinking the ‘New’ North America through Women’s Citizenship Struggles in Mexico

12 Democratic Deficits and the Role of Civil Society in North America: The SPP and Beyond

Conclusion: Will North America Survive?

Index