In Person: CFGS C168 (Sedgewick Building, University of Victoria) or Zoom. The meeting will take place from 12:00pm to 1:30pm PST. Register in advance for this meeting here. Registration is free but required.
Learn about a fascinating new open-access volume on Canada–US border and security policies: Security. Cooperation. Governance.: The Canada–United States Open Border Paradox (University of Michigan Press, 2023).
Join BIG Program Director Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, co-editors Professors Christian Leuprecht and Todd Hataley, along with contributors Drs. Jamie Ferrill, Laurie Trautman, Geoffrey Hale, Heather Nicol, and Carolina Reyes Marquez for a conversation about managing and administering (one of) the world’s most successful, secure and prosperous cross-border relationships. In an age when politics often frames borders as a problem, this book posits key lessons from the Canada–US border on fostering bilateral and binational coordination, cooperation and collaboration.
Sectoral and geographic diversity of cross-border interdependence of the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship makes the Canada–US border a living laboratory for studying the interaction of trade, security, and other border policies that challenge conventional centralized approaches to national security. As state borders have evolved in ways that serve the interests of central governments in security and the regulation of trade, the webinar discusses border and security policies that have evolved from successive trade agreements since the 1950s, punctuated by new and emerging challenges to security in the twenty-first century.
This BIG_Talk is being delivered in partnership with the Institute for Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR) at Queen’s University. Learn more about the IIGR here.
“This book makes the case that a border is not a uniform dividing line between sovereign states but a series of interlinked channels between distinct communities. It is a unique piece of scholarship that demonstrates how border policies related to security, immigration, and trade are tied to regional preferences, mediated by federal and binational policymakers.”
— Laura Dawson, Executive Director of the Future Borders Coalition
