Dorval Brunelle et Sylvie Dugas, « Civil Society Organisations against Free Trade Agreements in North America », dans Jeffrey Ayres et Laura MacDonald (dir.), Contentious Politics in North America : National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 320 pages.

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North American economic integration continues to shape both national and transnational contentious political behavior amongst civil society actors in Canada, the United States and Mexico. This book provides an original contribution to the debate over North American integration, which has focused largely on the economic costs and benefits of integration. Yet, with the recent passing of the 15th anniversary of NAFTA, and in the midst of increasingly rancorous debate over the merits of “deepening” North American integration through the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), we still have much more to learn about those patterns of contentious collective action and protest that continue to target North American states, actors and policies. This timely contribution is the result of a genuinely transnational collaboration between leading specialists on national and transnational contentious politics from Canada, the United States and Mexico.

CONTENT

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