North America Post-Bush Workshop

NACTS is pleased to co-sponsor the North America Post-Bush conference, a joint project of The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University, the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and the North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University.

The workshop will take place April 17 at the ASU campus in Tempe, Arizona. For more information, contact Daniel Drache, ddrache@yorku.ca.

This project includes the publication of 26 commissioned essays on topics such as the North American economy, environment, politics and security of Canada Watch. To read these papers, visit Special Edition -- Deep Integration: North America Post-Bush.

Table of Contents
Overview:
Editorial	Deep Integration Post-Bush
North American Values and Edgy Relationships:
Michael Adams Robert A Pastor José Luis Valdés-Ugalde	Still Different North America's Three Sided Challenge The Crisis in Mexico-U.S. Bilateral Relations
Poverty: The Great Social Divide:
Sarah Amira De la Garza and Debra Fossum Wei Li and Dan Wang Silvia Núñez García Julio Boltvinik	Waking Up from The American Dream Brain Mobility The American Poverty Trap Unreliable Data
Missed Canadian Opportunities and Challenges:
Andrew Jackson Michael McCracken Daniel Salée Lee Rodney	Confronting Inequality Can the U.S. Learn Anything from Canada About Government Defecits? Dealing With the Challenges of Ethnocultral Diversity Detriot's Demise and the Security First Agenda
Tense Borderlands:
Daniel Drache Dirk Hoerder D. Rick Van Schoik and Erik Lee Monica Gambrill	No Documents, No Entry Expliotation or Fair Treatment North America's Forgotten Agenda The Future of North American Integration Post-Bush
Homeland Insecurities:
Mónica Verea Brian Gratton and Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan Leonardo Curzio Greg Anderson	The Immigration Debacle The Unwelcoming Nation Mexico's National Security Equation Happy Third Birthday to the SPP! But Will there Be a Fourth?
The Porous Border and Arizona: A Case Study:
Luis F.B. Plascencia Mary Romero Claudia Sadowski-Smith	Knowingly Employing Sanctions The Anti Immigrant Backlash Post 9/11 Chain Link Fences and Border Security
Security and Post-Bush Governance:
Daniel Schwanen Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles Arnold Maltz RegWhitaker Patricia de los Rios Lozano	North American Integration Post Bush The Passion of NAFTA The Long Road of Transportation Post Bush Security, Civil Liberties and the 2008 U.S. Election The More Things Stay the Same
The Crisis of the North American Environment:
Francisco Lara Valencia David V.J. Bell Edit Antal	Renewing the Border Partnership The "Goracle" Factor Red, White, Blue and Green: High Politics