Game Changer ― The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security

The events of 9/11 turned North American politics upside down. US
policy makers stopped thinking about how they could better integrate
the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States and instead
focused on security and sovereignty.

Security experts and scholars tend to view the developments that
followed 9/11 within a bilateral framework. Game Changer
broadens the canvas by asking - how has Washington's desire
to keep the Canada-US and Mexico-US borders closed to security threats
but open to the movement of people and goods influenced life in Canada
and Mexico and relations among the three countries? Experts from across
North America draw on international relations theory to examine and
explain not only developments in key security areas such as border
control and the military-industrial sector but also how policy makers
can reconcile the need for greater regional cooperation when it comes
to security with the desire to maintain national autonomy in other
areas of life.

By adopting a truly North American, or trilateral, framework, this
challenging and authoritative volume suggests new approaches to
security in the post-9/11 world.

Jonathan Paquin is an associate professor of
political science at Universite Laval.

Patrick James is Dornsife Dean's Professor of
International Relations at the University of Southern California.

Donald E. Abelson, Louis Belanger, Yan Cimon, Stephen Clarkson,
Charles F. Doran, David G. Haglund, Frank P. Harvey, Athanasios
Hristoulas, Philippe Lagasse, Justin Massie, Mark Paradis, Isabelle
Vagnoux

Jonathan Paquin is associate professor of political science and director of the International Peace and Security Program at Universite Laval. Patrick James is Dornsife Dean's Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.