Governance Dilemmas in Canada, North America, and Beyond: A Tribute to Stephen Clarkson

Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Stephen Clarkson: Political Economist with a Global Vision (1937–2016)
	1.1 Plan of the Book
	References
Part I Themes
2 A Critical Appreciation of Stephen Clarkson: Looking Back at His “Foundational Text” on Canadian Foreign Policy
	2.1 Canada’s Potential Versus Structural Limitations
	2.2 The Deficiencies of Canadian Practice
	2.3 The Leadership Dilemma
	References
3 A North American Quest for Progressive Policies in an Era of Global Structural Changes
	3.1 The Rise of the Powerful, the Multinationals
	3.2 NAFTA, Neoliberalism as a New Regional “Constitution”
	3.3 From North American Integration to Inter-Regionalism—Between the West and the East
	3.4 Conclusion: Pessimist, Optimist, or Eternal Sceptic?
	References
Part II Challenges for Canadian Political Economy
4 Boring? Never! Clarksonian Perspectives on Nationalism Versus Continentalism
	References
5 Constitutionalism by Stealth? CETA as an Exemplar of Clarkson’s Supra National Constitutionalism
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Clarkson on Supranational Constitutionalism
	5.3 The Meech Lake Precedent: Popular Ratification?
	5.4 Federalism and Trade Agreements
	5.5 CETA as Stealth Constitutionalism?
	5.6 Conclusions
	References
6 In the Public Interest and the Uncertain Future of the WTO: Stephen Clarkson, Political Economist
	6.1 The Clarkson Gaze
	6.2 Paralysis, Fear, and Decay
	6.3 WTO Marginalization in Its Core Competence
	6.4 Growing State Scepticism Toward the WTO
	6.5 The Privatized and Secretive Alternative: ISDS
	6.6 The Fixers-Nixers Binary and Conundrum
	6.7 The Narrow Ledge of Trade Governance
	6.8 A Sartrian Dilemma: A World Without Dominant Agency
	References
Part III A New North America
7 Stephen Clarkson’s Radical Critique of Canada’s Relationship with the United States
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 A Continuous Erosion
	7.3 The Perspectives of a Canadian Foreign Policy Today
	7.4 Conclusion
	References
8 When Will the Fiesta Start? Mexico–Canada Relations in a New North America
	8.1 Introduction: North America and the Solidarity of the Weak1
	8.2 The Disproportionate Power of the Hegemon in the North American Region
	8.3 Asymmetry: The Fundamental Imbalance in North America
	8.4 Canada and Mexico—Toward a Partnership of the Weak?
	8.5 Constructing the Center-Periphery Dynamic—‘The Two Davids’
	8.6 Trump, North America, and Canadian Political Economists—“I Told You so”
	8.7 The Trudeau Rebuilding Exercise: Summitry and Lifting the Visa Requirement
	8.8 The Canadian Pivot: Betting on the Canada–US Relationship
	8.9 Is Canada Dumping Mexico?
	8.10 Conclusion: The Clarkson Legacy
	References
9 Will North America Survive? Embedded Liberalism in the Post-Trump Economic Order
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Embedded Liberalism
	9.3 NAFTA: Group Governance
	9.4 Conclusion
	References
Part IV Epilogue: A Legacy of Interesting Questions
10 Open Dialogue with Stephen Clarkson from the South of the Continent: The Current Situation in the Continent—Globalization, Dependency, and Governance
	10.1 From the North to Meet the South of the Continent
	10.2 Topics of the Dialogue with Stephen
		10.2.1 Globalization in the Scene
			10.2.1.1 The Internationalization of Resource- and Capital-Intensive Tradable Products
		10.2.2 Governance and Dependency
			10.2.2.1 Transnational Governance
			10.2.2.2 The Federal Globalized State and the Coopted Provincial Autonomies
			10.2.2.3 Globalization, Power, and the State
		10.2.3 The Big Supra-Regional Blocks in the North and the South
			10.2.3.1 Continental Integration in South America
			10.2.3.2 Important Moments and the Politics of Integration in South America: The Leader Countries—Argentina and Brazil
	10.3 Reflecting with Stephen
	References
11 Stephen Clarkson’s Great Transformation
	11.1 The Legacy of ’68
	11.2 Towards a Contested Future
	11.3 Passing the Baton
Index