The papers in this series were written by participants in a project With the support of the PanAmerican Partnership for Business Education, an alliance of four North American business schools. In cooperation with HEC-Montreal and the IRPP, the Partnership hosted a Study Group on “Mapping the New North American Reality” in November 2003. To gain a better understanding of what this new reality entails, we invited 30 Canadian, Mexican and US colleagues to explore the nature of North American economic integration.
The goal of the project was to open a new dialogue, centered on the disjuncture between the facts on the ground – pointing to the deepening of interdependence in such crucial areas as energy, security, health and safety, and job creation – and the near-absence of a public consciousness of shared “North American” interests. We challenged the group to “think North America,” and, by extension, to “talk North America” by mapping out how integration was actually taking place in diverse sectors, issue areas, and geographical regions.
Introduction
Stephen Blank, Stephanie R. Golob and Guy Stanley
North American Economic Integration: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada
Someshwar Rao
The Next Plateau in North America: What’s the Big Idea?
George Haynal
Taking a Fresh Look at North American Integration
Yan Cimon and Claudia Rebolledo
The Role of Subnational Governments in the Governance of North America
Earl H. Fry
Civil Society and North American Integration
Laura Macdonald
Trade and Environment in North America
Chantal Line Carpentier
NAFTA as a Vehicle for Regulatory and Institutional Convergence in the North American Region
Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez
The Quiet Reality of North American Energy Interdependence
Joseph M. Dukert
Immigration – Mapping the New North American Reality
Deborah W. Meyers and Kevin O’Neil
Roads, Trains and Ports: Integrating North American Transport
David W. Eaton
Mapping the New North American Reality: The Road Sector
Mary R. Brooks
The “Away Game”: Canada-United States Security Relations Outside North America
Joel J. Sokolsky
Monetary Convergence between Canada and the United States: A Critique of the Official View
Martin Coiteux
Banking in North America
Sergio A. Luna
The North American Auto Industry
Isabel Studer
Québec-New York Trade Corridors Initiatives
Albert Juneau
Conclusion
Stephen Blank, Stephanie R. Golob and Guy Stanley