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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Introduction: Soft Threats, Security Gaps, and an American Plague: Exploring a Collective Outcome
verfasst von : Imtiaz Hussain, Jorge A. Schiavon
Erschienen in: North America’s Soft Security Threats and Multilateral Governance
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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Even before 9/11, North America faced a direct security threat. It was not only that an effective counterstrategy was absent, but also that a regional entity (or collection of states) was not expected to do what an individual state could do better: guarantee national and regional security. So the perennial illicit-flow problem crisscrossing Canada, Mexico, and the United States—our three North American constituencies—remained as unresolved in the national policy domain as ever. In flow-volumes and human casualties, the region was far worse off at the start of the twenty-first century than at the end of the twentieth century.