American Review of Canadian Studies articles from June 1996

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from June 1996

Editorial: the future of North America(n studies)?
June 22, 1996... North American regional economic integration was already well advanced when the legislatures of Mexico, Canada, and the United States approved the North American Free Trade Agreement. The three national debates over NAFTA, however, alerted...

Introduction: North American integration: paradoxes and prospects.
June 22, 1996... In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), considerable attention is being paid today to the social, economic, and political landscape of North America. With the rapid growth of north-south commerce, information transfers,...

North American environmentalism and political integration.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Recent scholarship suggests that, over the last decade or so, North Americans have undergone a widescale convergence in values: Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans have become more alike. (Nevitte and Inglehart 1993; Nevitte...

Environmental management on the Mexico-United States border: NAFTA and the emerging bilateral regime.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Public concern with environmental management in border areas is of fairly recent vintage. What might be called modern environmental activism along the Mexico-U.S. border traces its roots only to the mid-1970s with social...

Economic changes and the need for a new federalism: lessons from Mexico's northern states.
June 22, 1996... Introduction Mexico's recent crisis has brought to the fore what is perhaps the most relevant feature of its current model of development: close interdependence with the global system, and particularly with the United States. Over the past...

Deconstructing the Canadian state.
June 22, 1996... Preamble The first part of this article was presented at the Trilateral Symposium in February 1995. It is reproduced here with only minor modifications. Part II is an addition and extension made necessary by a profound shift in Canadian...

Advancing the North American community.
June 22, 1996... In this essay I have chosen first to write on the emerging North American community as if it were a fact. (1) The signs of this emergence are all around us and, in my view, some sort of community already exists. If so, it can be defined as a...

Redefining bridges and borders.
June 22, 1996... Imagine, if you will, that in your own country, from the time of the first people, today, and far into the future, everyone that was ever born or will be born was born with two legs, two arms, two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and a pair of...