The United States–Canada security community: a case study in mature border management
Date
2021
Authors
Leuprecht, Christian
Hataley, Todd
Sundberg, Kelly
Cozine, Keith
Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel
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Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Abstract
Canada and the US The United States and Canada have a long tradition of bilateral and binational security coordination, cooperation and collaboration. This is evident in a vast and growing number of trans-governmental networks that facilitate and enable policy alignment and parallelism in defence, border security, intelligence and counter-terrorism. The security community has mastered coordination and cooperation. The US–Canada relationship is based on reciprocity. Despite its common cultural bedrock though, the US–Canada security community's hallmark is policy parallelism. Forms of mature collaboration remain limited and are only found on occasion. Partnerships have proven more successful in functional areas than in principled ones.
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Keywords
North America, United States, Canada, security community, border, security, Borders in Globalization
Citation
Leuprecht, C., Hataley, T., Sundberg, K., Cozine, K., & Brunet-Jailly, E. (2021). The United States–Canada security community: A case study in mature border management. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 59(4), 376–398. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2021.1994724