Jonathan Paquin is an associate professor of political science and director of the International Peace and Security Program at Université Laval. Patrick James is Dornsife Dean's Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.Contributors: Donald E. Abelson, Louis Bélanger, Yan Cimon, Stephen Clarkson, Charles F. Doran, David G. Haglund, Frank P. Harvey, Athanasios Hristoulas, Philippe Lagassé, Justin Massie, Mark Paradis, Isabelle Vagnoux

• Introduction: The Changing Contours of North American Security / Jonathan Paquin and Patrick JamesPart 1: Theoretical Explanations of Post-9/11 Security Relations1 Was 9/11 a Watershed? / Charles F. Doran2 The Homeland Security Dilemma: Assessing the Implications for Canada-US Border Security Negotiations / Frank P. Harvey3 Toward Greater Opportunism: Balancing and Bandwagoning in Canada-US Relations / Justin Massie4 Canada, the United States, and Continental Security after 9/11: An Assessment Based on Attribution Theory / Mark Paradis and Patrick James5 Canada-US Security Cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership: An Autopsy Report / Jonathan Paquin and Louis BélangerPart 2: Significant Developments in North American Security and Defence6 The Disintegrative Effects of North America's Securitization on the Canada-Mexico Relationship / Stephen Clarkson7 Mexico's Ambiguous Foreign Policy toward North America / Athanasios Hristoulas8 From the Border Partnership Agreement to the Twenty-First-Century Border: Enforcing Security on the US-Mexico Border / Isabelle Vagnoux9 National Interest or Self-Interest? Advocacy Think Tanks, 9/11, and the Future of North American Security / Donald E. Abelson10 A Common "Bilateral" Vision: North American Defence Cooperation, 2001-12 / Philippe Lagassé11 Defence Policy and the Aerospace and Defence Industry in North America: The Changing Contours of the Post-9/11 Era / Yan Cimon12 The Canada-US Alliance in the Post-9/11 Context: Any Room for Mexico? / David G. HaglundConclusion: Continental Security – What Now? / Jonathan Paquin and Patrick JamesBibliography; Index