The Impacts of NAFTA on North America: Challenges outside the Box Book

List of Tables vii

Acknowledgments ix

List of Contributors xi

1 Introduction: Beneath, Beyond, or Within North America's Regional Box: Paradigm Indigestion? Imtiaz Hussain 1

2 North America's Regionalisms Face Globalism: Integrating Climate Change Responses Marcela López-Vallejo Olvera 21

3 Mexico-Canada Biotech Image: The Role of the Broader Scientific Community Edit Antal Camelia Tigau 39

4 North American Anti-Immigration Rhetorics: Continental Circulation and Global Resonance of Discursive Integration Liette Gilbert 63

5 Integration through NAFTA's Chapter 11: Eroding Federalism and Regionalism? Ian McKinley 93

6 Thick Borders and the Challenge of North American Policy Coordination Post-Bush: What's Next? Daniel Drache 107

7 Three Amigos and a Nonregional Player: China as a Challenge Inside and Outside the NAFTA Box Francisco Haro Navejas 123

8 Natural Resources and Out-Migration in Local Communities of Southern Mexico: Non-NAFTA Issues Impacting NAFTA Alba González Jácome 141

9 Gendering NAFTA: Utopian Vision? Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard 159

10 Developing National and International Civic Engagement Networks: The International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy Frank Plantan, Jr. 181

11 North American Integration and Recession: Paradigm Change? Imtiaz Hussain 209

12 The 2009 H1N1 Outbreak: A Chaotic North American Trigger with Evolving Global Consequences Tim Lynch Paul Michael Cox 237

13 Conclusion: Rising to the Occasion: Coordinating Tumult Imtiaz Hussain 253

Index 259