Contentious politics in North America : national protest and transnational collaboration under continental integration

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Contentious politics in North America : national protest and transnational collaboration under continental integration

edited by Jeffrey Ayres and Laura Macdonald

(International political economy series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Bibliography: p. 258-283

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Description

This is the only book of its kind devoted to exploring contentious politics from a North American perspective, including protests, social movements, transnational contention, and emergent regional governance processes, between Canadian, U.S. and Mexican state and civil society actors.

Table of Contents

  • PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION Introduction: Conceptualizing North American Contentious Politics
  • J.Ayres & L.Macdonald The Political Economy of Neoliberalism in North America
  • S.McBride North American Politics after September 11: Security, Democracy and Sovereignty
  • J.Castro-Rea PART II: CONTENTIOUS POLITICS: NATIONAL AND CROSS-BORDER VARIATIONS Civil Society Organizations against Free Trade Agreements in North America
  • D.Brunelle & S.Dugas Paradoxes of a Transnational Civil Society in a Neoliberal World: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
  • J.Bandy Contesting Neoliberal Globalism and NAFTA in Rural Mexico: From State Corporatism to the Political-Cultural Formation of the Peasantry?
  • A.Bartra & G.Otero Contentious Politics in Mexico: Democratization and Mobilizations after NAFTA
  • J.Cadena-Roa Coalition Politics: A Political Analysis of the Strategies, Discourses and Impact of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC
  • M.J.Massicotte PART III: CONTESTING REGIONAL GOVERNANCE The Globalized Complexities of Transborder Governance in North America
  • S.Clarkson, A.Torres-Ruiz The Legalization of Transnational Political Opportunity Structures: Mobilization of NAFTA's Labor Citizen Petitions for Domestic Political Gain
  • J.Graubart North American Transnational Environmental Actors and Mexico
  • B.Torres NAFTA and Transnational Contention: A Decade of Alliance and Conflict over Neoliberalism
  • M.Dreiling, T.Silvaggio PART IV:CONCLUSION Conclusion: Contention and Deepening North America
  • S.Golob Bibliography Index

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