North American Borders in Comparative Perspective

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Editor), Victor Konrad (Editor), Alan Artibise (Foreword)
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The northern and southern borders and borderlands of the United States should have much in common; instead they offer mirror articulations of the complex relationships and engagements between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. In North American Borders in Comparative Perspectiveleading experts provide a contemporary analysis of how globalization and security imperatives have redefined the shared border regions of these three nations.

This volume offers a comparative perspective on North American borders and reveals the distinctive nature first of the overportrayed Mexico-U.S. border and then of the largely overlooked Canada-U.S. border. The perspectives on either border are rarely compared. Essays in this volume bring North American borders into comparative focus; the contributors advance the understanding of borders in a variety of theoretical and empirical contexts pertaining to North America with an intense sharing of knowledge, ideas, and perspectives.

Adding to the regional analysis of North American borders and borderlands, this book cuts across disciplinary and topical areas to provide a balanced, comparative view of borders. Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners convey perspectives on current research and understanding of the United States’ borders with its immediate neighbors. Developing current border theories, the authors address timely and practical border issues that are significant to our understanding and management of North American borderlands.

The future of borders demands a deep understanding of borderlands and borders. This volume is a major step in that direction.

Contributors
Bruce Agnew
Donald K. Alper
Alan D. Bersin
Christopher Brown
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
Irasema Coronado
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Michelle Keck
Victor Konrad
Francisco Lara-Valencia
Tony Payan
Kathleen Staudt
Rick Van Schoik
Christopher Wilson

 “With essays by leading border scholars and practitioners, this book provides superb analysis of how evolving globalization and the security imperative have redefined the shared borders and border regions of the USA, Canada, and Mexico. North American Borders in Comparative Perspective is a key resource for students, scholars, the policy community, and community activists who want to understand these critical border regions of North America.”—Paul Ganster, co-author of The U.S.-Mexico Border into the Twenty-First Century
 
North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
424 Pages 6 x 9
Published: April 2020Paperback ISBN: 9780816539529
Published: April 2020Hardcover ISBN: 9780816541041
Published: April 2020Ebook ISBN: 9780816541270

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