Contentious Politics in North America : National Protest and Transnational Collaboration Under Continental Integration (Hardcover)

PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION Introduction: Conceptualizing North American Contentious Politics; J.Ayres & L.Macdonald The Political Economy of Neoliberalism in North America; S.McBride North American Politics after September 11: Security, Democracy and Sovereignty; J.Castro-Rea PART II: CONTENTIOUS POLITICS: NATIONAL AND CROSS-BORDER VARIATIONS Civil Society Organizations against Free Trade Agreements in North America; D.Brunelle & S.Dugas Paradoxes of a Transnational Civil Society in a Neoliberal World: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras; J.Bandy Contesting Neoliberal Globalism and NAFTA in Rural Mexico: From State Corporatism to the Political-Cultural Formation of the Peasantry?; A.Bartra & G.Otero Contentious Politics in Mexico: Democratization and Mobilizations after NAFTA; J.Cadena-Roa Coalition Politics: A Political Analysis of the Strategies, Discourses and Impact of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC; M.J.Massicotte PART III: CONTESTING REGIONAL GOVERNANCE The Globalized Complexities of Transborder Governance in North America; S.Clarkson, A.Torres-Ruiz The Legalization of Transnational Political Opportunity Structures: Mobilization of NAFTA's Labor Citizen Petitions for Domestic Political Gain; J.Graubart North American Transnational Environmental Actors and Mexico; B.Torres NAFTA and Transnational Contention: A Decade of Alliance and Conflict over Neoliberalism; M.Dreiling, T.Silvaggio PART IV:CONCLUSION Conclusion: Contention and Deepening North America; S.Golob Bibliography Index