NAFTA AND BEYOND:

Regional Policy Making in an Interdependent World

 

Henry M. Jackson

School of International Studies

Senior Task Force

Professor Matthew Sparke 

Contributors: Jennifer Robson, Gabriel F. Grant, Michelle Wolters, Sarah Mitchell, Ryan Ehlinger, Amy Kaestner, Larry Writer, Colin Johnson, Heidi Hall, Bryan Roe, Erika Kussmann, Gerardo Botello, Dominik Karelus, Valeria Leonardi, Bradford T. Doll

 

Table of Contents


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

- Jennifer Robson

 

INTRODUCTION

- Gabriel Grant

 

Section One:

 NORTHERN BORDER INTRODUCTION

 

CHAPTER 1

Harmonizing the Heartland: Socio-Economic Challenges in

the Larger Great Lakes Region

- Michelle Wolters

 

CHAPTER 2

Bi-national Pollution, Bi-national Solutions: The Great Lakes

Ecosystem

- Sarah Mitchell

 

CHAPTER 3

Coordinating Cascadia: The Implications of Increasing Socio-

Economic Interdependency

- Ryan Ehlinger

 

CHAPTER 4

Mountains and Microchips: Free Trade and the Environment

in Cascadia

- Amy Kaestner

 

CHAPTER 5

Common Problems, Different Solutions: From North America

to the Northern Border Regions of Europe

- Lawrence Writer

 

CHAPTER 6

Upping the Ante: Policies for Deepening - Long Term

Sustainability in the US-Canadian Border Regions

- Colin Johnson

 

Section Two

SOUTHERN BORDER INTRODUCTION

 

CHAPTER 7

One Metropolis, Two Nations: Socio-Economic

Interdependence in the San Diego-Tijuana Region

- Heidi Hall

 

CHAPTER 8

A Deteriorating Cesspool or Ecologically Sustainable

Region: The Future of Interdependence in the San

Diego-Tijuana Corridor

- Bryan Roe

  

CHAPTER 9

Across the Rio Grande: Interdependence and the Developing

Region of the Texas-Mexico Border

- Erika Kussmann

 

CHAPTER 10

Environment on the Edge: Challenges to the Texas-Mexico

Ecosystem

- Gerardo Botello

 

CHAPTER 11

Lessons From EU: Interdependencies, Asymmetries and

Regional Cooperation

- Dominik Karelus

 

CHAPTER 12

Between the South of the North and the North of the

South: From Battle Zone to Borderland Bi-Nationalism

- Valeria Leonardi

  

CONCLUSION

- Bradford Doll