Introduction: The Changing Contours of North American Security / Jonathan Paquin and Patrick James

Part 1: Theoretical Explanations of Post-9/11 Security Relations

1 Was 9/11 a Watershed? / Charles F. Doran

2 The Homeland Security Dilemma: Assessing the Implications for Canada-US Border Security Negotiations / Frank P. Harvey

3 Toward Greater Opportunism: Balancing and Bandwagoning in Canada-US Relations / Justin Massie

4 Canada, the United States, and Continental Security after 9/11: An Assessment Based on Attribution Theory / Mark Paradis and Patrick James

5 Canada-US Security Cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership: An Autopsy Report / Jonathan Paquin and Louis Bélanger

Part 2: Significant Developments in North American Security and Defence

6 The Disintegrative Effects of North America’s Securitization on the Canada-Mexico Relationship / Stephen Clarkson

7 Mexico’s Ambiguous Foreign Policy toward North America / Athanasios Hristoulas

8 From the Border Partnership Agreement to the Twenty-First-Century Border: Enforcing Security on the US-Mexico Border / Isabelle Vagnoux

9 National Interest or Self-Interest? Advocacy Think Tanks, 9/11, and the Future of North American Security / Donald E. Abelson

10 A Common “Bilateral” Vision: North American Defence Cooperation, 2001-12 / Philippe Lagassé

11 Defence Policy and the Aerospace and Defence Industry in North America: The Changing Contours of the Post-9/11 Era / Yan Cimon

12 The Canada-US Alliance in the Post-9/11 Context: Any Room for Mexico? / David G. Haglund

Conclusion: Continental Security – What Now? / Jonathan Paquin and Patrick James

Bibliography; Index