North American Regionalism - (The Americas in the World) by Eric Hershberg & Tom Long

About the Book

"North American Regionalism positions "North America" as an important region in its own right, breaking with the area-studies convention that divides the Global North and Global South portions of the Western Hemisphere at the US-Mexican border. By cutting across this division, the theoretically sophisticated essays in this volume yield new insights about politics, society, and the economy of North America, opening dialogues with the New Regionalism approach and the literature on comparative regional studies. Drawing on a six-year interdisciplinary collaboration among leading scholars from Canadian, Mexican, US, and European universities, the book brings North America back into International Relations' study of regions and regionalism. The book includes robust theoretical and empirical engagement with issues of trade, migration, security, energy and climate, and the rise of China"--

Book Synopsis

North American Regionalism problematizes "North America" as an important region in its own right, breaking with the area-studies convention that divides the Global North and Global South portions of the Western Hemisphere at the US-Mexican border. By cutting across this division, the theoretically sophisticated essays in this volume yield new insights about politics, society, and the economy of North America, opening dialogues with the New Regionalism approach and the literature on comparative regional studies.

Drawing on a six-year interdisciplinary collaboration among leading scholars from Canadian, Mexican, US, and European universities, the book brings North America back into International Relations' study of regions and regionalism. The book includes robust theoretical and empirical engagement with issues of trade, migration, security, energy and climate, and the rise of China.

Review Quotes

"Coeditors Hershberg and Long smartly go beyond supranational institutions, considering not only top-down executive branch initiatives but also transnational dealings between social actors (such as corporations and nonprofits) and subnational actors (state and provincial governments) and assessing the influence of more subjective notions, such as national identity and the acceptance or rejection of neighboring political systems and cultures."--Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs