Requiem or Revival?: The Promise of North American Integration

Contributors

289 Contributors Theodore H. Cohn is professor emeritus of political science at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. He has written a number of books, articles, and smaller monographs on international political economy, international trade, global food and agricultural issues, and Canada-U.S.Mexico relations. Professor Cohn’s books include Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice (Longman, 2005, 3rd ed.), Governing Global Trade: International Institutions in Conflict and Convergence (Ashgate, 2002), The International Politics of Agricultural Trade: Canadian-American Relations in a Global Agricultural Context (University of British Columbia Press,1990), and Canadian Food Aid: Domestic and Foreign Policy Implications (University of Denver,1979). He is currently writing the fourth edition of Global Political Economy and cowriting a book on international organization. I. M. (“Mac”) Destler is professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and director of its International Security and Economic Policy Program. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Professor Destler is the author of numerous works on U.S. trade policymaking, the most prominent being American Trade Politics, the fourth edition of which was published by the Peterson Institute in 2005. 15-8201-8 contributors.qxd 7/13/07 4:36 PM Page 289 Charles F. Doran is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of International Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. There, he directs the Program of Global Theory and History as well as the Program of Canadian Studies. He is also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Professor Doran’s books on Canada include Forgotten Partnership (selected as the most noteworthy book on foreign policy across thirty years of Canadian studies scholarship , Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984) and Why Canadian Unity Matters (University of Toronto Press, 2001). Among his works in energy security are Myth, Oil, and Politics (Free Press, 1977) and The Gulf, Energy, and Global Security (coedited with Stephen W. Buck, Rienner Publishers, 1991). He received the Donner Medal for distinguished scholarship in Canadian Studies and the prestigious Governor General’s Award. Christina Gabriel is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has published numerous articles in the areas of citizenship and migration, gender and politics, and globalization. She is coauthor with Yasmeen Abu-Laban of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism , Employment Equity, and Globalization (Broadview Press, 2002). Sergio Gómez Lora has served at the Mexican Ministry of Trade and Industry (now called the Ministry of Economy) in the capacity of trade counselor in Mexico’s NAFTA office in Ottawa, Canada, and as a member of the team in charge of preparing the implementation of NAFTA. He was director for NAFTA accession procedures and for international trade agreements , and he participated in the Mexico-EU free trade agreement negotiations . He was a senior consultant at Soluciones Estratégicas and since 2005 has been general director of IQOM Inteligencia Comercial, which is a firm that specializes in the provision of electronic data and information on all aspects of Mexico’s foreign trade to companies established in Mexico. Laura MacDonald is professor and chair in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Centre on North American Politics and Society at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections on such issues as the role of nongovernmental organizations in development, global civil society, citizenship struggles in Latin America, and Canadian development assistance. She has 290 Contributors 15-8201-8 contributors.qxd 7/13/07 4:36 PM Page 290 also published extensively on the political impact of NAFTA on human rights and democracy in the three member states. Gordon Mace is director of the Inter-American Studies Center at Universit é Laval in Québec City, Canada. He is also the editor of the journal Études Internationales. His main research interests are inter-American cooperation, regional integration, and Canadian foreign policy. He has written or cowritten six books and more than sixty articles and book chapters on various subjects related to the aforementioned themes. He is currently working on an edited book on inter-American institutions and on a team project on regionalism and foreign policy convergence in the context of NAFTA. Isidro Morales is professor of international relations at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA...