North American Partnership

This CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report, North America: Time for a New Focus, asserts that elevating and prioritizing the U.S.-Canada-Mexico relationship offers the best opportunity for strengthening the United States and its place in the world.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism - the first of its kind - offers a systematic and wide-ranging survey of the scholarship on regionalism, regionalization, and regional governance. Unpacking the major debates, leading authors of the field synthesize the state of the art, provide a guide to the comparative study of regionalism, and identify future avenues of research. Twenty-seven chapters review the theoretical and empirical scholarship with regard to the emergence of regionalism, the institutional design of regional organizations and issue-specific governance, as well as the effects of regionalism and its relationship with processes of regionalization. The authors explore theories of cooperation, integration, and diffusion explaining the rise and the different forms of regionalism. The handbook also discusses the state of the art on the world regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Eurasia, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Various chapters survey the literature on regional governance in major issue areas such as security and peace, trade and finance, environment, migration, social and gender policies, as well as democracy and human rights. Finally, the handbook engages in cross-regional comparisons with regard to institutional design, dispute settlement, identities and communities, legitimacy and democracy, as well as inter- and transregionalism.

The North American Arctic addresses the emergence of a new security relationship within the North American North. It focuses on current and emerging security issues that confront the North American Arctic and that shape relationships between and with neighbouring states (Alaska in the US; Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada; Greenland and Russia). Identifying the degree to which ‘domain awareness’ has redefined the traditional military focus, while a new human rights discourse undercuts traditional ways of managing sovereignty and territory, the volume’s contributors question normative security arrangements. Although security itself is not an obsolete concept, our understanding of what constitutes real human-centred security has become outdated. The contributors argue that there are new regionally specific threats originating from a wide range of events and possibilities, and very different subjectivities that can be brought to understand the shape of Arctic security and security relationships in the twenty-first century.

NORTH AMERICA'S ECONOMIC If Canada, Mexico and the United States were to regain the productivity growth rate that the three countries had in POTENTIAL the first decade of NAFTA, the economic effects could be Before delving into the details of Mexico and Canada's tremendous. [...] Given the size of the Mexico's economy needs to grow, energy infrastructure companies deposits the Caisse must manage, and the long-term nature of ATCO and TransCanada Corporation together have invested pension and insurance plans, the Caisse actively invests around the billions of dollars in Mexico's natural gas and electricity industries. [...] After Canada reforms to the country's energy laws (which now allow foreign and the United States, Mexico is Scotiabank's most important firms to compete for oil and gas drilling rights) and a campaign market, accounting for 3.7 percent of loans and acceptances to build another 11,000 km of pipelines in the country, Mexico's (Canada and the United States respectively account for 69 percent energy s [...] Furthermore, despite the growth in trade, and the notable success of some Canadian companies in Mexico, Canada Canada, Mexico and the United States' competiveness means and Mexico's "North American" trade and investment taking full advantage of what the three economies can offer is still overwhelmingly aimed at the United States. [...] Canada subsequently lobbied both reject the proposal and worked with the United States to hammer Mexico and the United States to allow Ottawa to participate in the out a compromise: that 35 to 45 percent of auto parts (with higher talks.

The nine essays in Asian North American Identities explore how Asian North Americans are no longer caught between worlds of the old and the new, the east and the west, and the south and the north. Moving beyond national and diasporic models of ethnic identity to focus on the individual feelings and experiences of those who are not part of a dominant white majority, the essays collected here draw from a wide range of sources, including novels, art, photography, poetry, cinema, theatre, and popular culture. The book illustrates how Asian North Americans are developing new ways of seeing and thinking about themselves by eluding imposed identities and creating spaces that offer alternative sites from which to speak and imagine. Contributors are Jeanne Yu-Mei Chiu, Patricia Chu, Rocio G. Davis, Donald C. Goellnicht, Karlyn Koh, Josephine Lee, Leilani Nishime, Caroline Rody, Jeffrey J. Santa Ana, Malini Johar Schueller, and Eleanor Ty.

Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America: An Overview and Selected Issues Summary The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was a trilateral initiative that was launched in March 2005 by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to increase cooperation and information sharing for the purpose of increasing and enhancing se [...] At the 2007 North American Leaders' Summit in Montebello, Canada, the leaders announced the following priorities for the SPP: (1) Enhancement of the Global Competitiveness of North America, (2) Safe Food and Products, (3) Sustainable Energy and the Environment, (4) Smart and Secure Borders, and (5) Emergency Management and Preparedness. [...] The primary purpose of the initiative was to improve cooperative efforts among the three countries in areas related to economic prosperity and the protection of the environment, the food supply, and public health.1 The initial plan included the establishment of a number of security and prosperity working groups in each of the two categories. [...] The U. S. government website on the SPP states that it has been archived and will not be updated.2 Working Group Proposals and Priorities In 2005 and 2006, the SPP working groups provided annual reports to the three leaders of North America on the work and key accomplishments of the working groups. [...] The proposals related to trade and commerce included a signed Framework of Common Principles for Electronic Commerce; liberalization of Rules of Origin; a Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and the United States to exchange information and cooperate on activities relating to consumer product safety and health; harmonization of the use of care symbols on textiles and apparel 1 See Security.