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Tales from the Desert Borderland
Taylor brings an ethnographer’s eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border. In these...
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Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure: The Politics of Intermesticity
This chapter explores the politics of building, maintaining and expanding cross-border energy infrastructure between Canada and the United States as...
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The Coming Clash Over Migration Policy Between Canada and the United States
Canada and the United States have historically addressed conflicting issues in migration policy reactively rather than proactively. This chapter...
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Plasma Jets
This chapter lays out the history of plasma-jet-driven magneto-inertial fusion (PJMIF), a unique concept in fusion that merits its own categorization...
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Conclusion: Will Canada’s Immigration Policy Take an International Turn?
It is not uncommon to read that because international migration by definition involves the people and interests of more than one state, it ought to...
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“We’re Back”: Re-imagining Public Diplomacy in Canada
The central purpose of this chapter is to examine the claim that the Trudeau government has re-committed Canada to a broad and enduring strategy of...
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‘A Vindication of the Rights of Black Women’: Black British Feminism Then and Now
The changing articulation of Black British feminism is mapped in the struggles of a new generation of Black feminists coming to voice 35 years after...
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Finding Commonalities Amidst Increasing Differences in Canadian and U.S. Immigration Policies
Although Canada and the United States share a many-centuries long tradition of receiving the world’s migrants, since the 1960s they have, in fact,...
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Canada–US Security Cooperation: Interests, Institutions, Identity and Ideas
The Canada–US security relationship has always been one of balance: creating institutions that balance the power differential, balancing domestic,...
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Where Is the Relationship Going? The View from Canada
National identity is used to analyze contemporary Canada–US relations from a Canadian perspective. Being a smaller and less powerful partner means...
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New Platforms, New Contents: Run, Coyote, Run
This chapter is devoted mainly to the first series made by the Fox network in Mexico, a comedy that treats the traumatic topic of people smuggling...
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Bridging the 49th Parallel: A Case Study in Art as Cultural Diplomacy
A forgotten experiment in the history of Canadian cultural diplomacy initiatives, 49th Parallel: Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art employed fine...
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NAFTA
Silver Supper Night at Grumpy’s and a room full of seniors are bobbing over their burgers like happy bulldogs. Ned, too nervous to eat, catches his...
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Ranch Rescue
Gil Orozco takes aim for the third time and squeezes the trigger, trying to ignore the snickering boys. But this time the metal disk **s sharply...
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Dualistic Images of Canada in the World: Instrumental Commonalities/Symbolic Divides
Canada has a tradition that emphasizes bipartisan consensus on foreign policy. This tradition however has been bent albeit not completely broken...
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Hot Springs
Devil’s Canyon. Easy to imagine Satan lea** among the thousand tilting towers of wind-ground stones. Warming his red ass on the shimmering white...
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Space Science
Even without Itokawa, his colleagues implemented his vision of a programme of small satellites for space science, continuously upgrading its small,...
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Conservative American Nationalism: The Trump Doctrine in Theory and Practice
This chapter examines Trump’s foreign policy thinking and initiatives. The most fitting conceptual name for the Trump Doctrine is Conservative...
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The National Interest
Realists foreground the national interest as the benchmark for intelligent foreign policy. They are certainly correct in thinking that there should...
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Introduction
This book challenges the utility of off-scale military spending and the illusory search for hegemony, illustrating how both are responsible for the...