The 'New Orthodoxy': NAFTA Chapter Eleven and the Implications for the FTAA
Convergence and Divergence in North America: Canada and the United States, Karl Froschauer, Nadine Fabbi, and Susan Pell, eds., Burnaby: Centre for Canadian Studies, Simon Fraser University, 2006
Posted: 28 Apr 2013
Date Written: 2006
Abstract
Book Summary: This book includes Canadian, U.S., and international perspectives. Rather than addressing continental convergence and divergence from a single academic point of view, these sixty-one papers contain a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Contributors’ conceptual re-assessments and scholarly debates reveal how Canada and the U.S. can take various paths to improve their societies, hold dissimilar ideas about policy, and interrelate unilaterally or multilaterally. Here, international Canadianists emphasize that an examination of convergence and divergence needs to advance, for example, a conceptual complexity beyond national comparison (e.g., multiformity in borderlands, the Arctic North), an assessment of free trade relations, an examination of emergent cross-border asymmetries (e.g., in cultural identities, environmental regulations), a review of crossborder (in)securities, an understanding of Aboriginal concerns (e.g., repatriation, self-government), an examination of recent societal developments (e.g., in immigration, social policy, youth participation, union membership), and a recognition of Canadian uniqueness.
Keywords: NAFTA, Canada, United States, convergence, divergence
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