Contentious Politics in North America

Part I. Theoretical Issues and Policy Implications of North American Integration

1. Introduction: Conceptualizing North American Contentious Politics
Jeffrey Ayres, Laura Macdonald

2. The Political Economy of Neoliberalism in North America
Stephen McBride

3. North American Politics after September 11: Security, Democracy and Sovereignty
Julián Castro-Rea

Part II. Contentious Politics: National and Cross-Border Variations

4. Civil Society Organizations against Free Trade Agreements in North America
Dorval Brunelle, Sylvie Dugas

5. Paradoxes of a Transnational Civil Society in a Neoliberal World: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
Joe Bandy

6. Contesting Neoliberal Globalism and NAFTA in Rural Mexico: From State Corporatism to the Political-Cultural Formation of the Peasantry?
Armando Bartra, Gerardo Otero

7. Contentious Politics in Mexico: Democratization and Mobilizations after NAFTA
Jorge Cadena-Roa

8. Coalition Politics: A Political Analysis of the Strategies, Discourses and Impact of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC)
Marie-Josée Massicotte

Part III. Contesting Regional Governance

9. The Globalized Complexities of Transborder Governance in North America
Stephen Clarkson, Antonio Torres-Ruiz

10. The Legalization of Transnational Political Opportunity Structures: Mobilization of NAFTA’s Labor Citizen Petitions for Domestic Political Gain
Jonathan Graubart

11. North American Transnational Environmental Actors and Mexico
Blanca Torres

12. NAFTA and Transnational Contention: A Decade of Alliance and Conflict over Neoliberalism
Michael Dreiling, Tony Silvaggio

Part IV. Conclusion

13. Conclusion: Contention and Deepening North America
Stephanie R. Golob

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