Topics include how security considerations since the attacks of September 11, 2001, have impeded further economic integration.

The Chronicle Review

This book is an interesting addition to the growing literature on the nature and effect of security alliances in an economically integrated world… The authors posit that security will trump economic integration for the US and that this reprioritization will increase conflict between social groups within and among states… Recommended. Graduate, faculty, and research collections.

Choice

How has the security regime established in the United States in the wake of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks impacted trade and other relations between the United States, Canada, and Mexico? Hussain (international relations, U. Iberioamericana, Mexico), Pattnayak (sociology, Villanova U., US), and Hira (Latin American studies, Simon Fraser U., Canada) explore this question by first providing a country-specific study of 9/11 policy responses across North America, then examining the region's bilateral relations (particularly in reference to security and intelligence), and finally exploring trilateral possibilities. In exploring these issues, they rely on two major of clusters of theories: integrative (security and neofunctionalist) and hybrid (interdependence and neorealism).

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