Twenty years after NAFTA, the consensus seems to be that the regional project in North America is dead. The trade agreement was never followed up by new institutions that might cement a more ambitious regional community. The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), launched with some fanfare in 2005, was quietly discontinued in 2009. And new cooperative ventures like the US-Canada Beyond the Border talks and the US-Mexico Merida Initiative suggest that the three governments have reverted to the familiar, pre-NAFTA pattern of informal, incremental bilateralism. One could argue, however, that NAFTA itself has been buried, and yet the region somehow lives on, albeit in a form very different from regional integration in other parts of the world.

1. Building without Architecture: Regional Governance in Post-NAFTA North America Brian Bow and Greg Anderson 2. "Bundled Transgovernmentalism" and Environmental Governance in North America Debora VanNijnatten and Neil Craik 3. New Directions in North American Border Security Governance Jason Ackleson and Yosef Lapid 4. Faraway So Close: Territorial Security and Regionalism in North America and Europe Ruben Zaiotti 5. The Government Designed Architecture of North America's Disaggregated Trade and Investment Arbitration Regimes Stephen Clarkson 6. Lacking Linkages: Labor, Civil Society and Sub-Federal Trade Policy in North America Christopher Kukucha 7. Security, Technology and Market Restructuring in North America's Energy Industries and the Demise of Mexico's State-Oil-Monopoly Regime Isidro Morales 8. 'Exceptional,' Immovable, Adaptable: Congress and the Limitations of North American Governance Geoffrey Hale 9. Polls, Parties, Politicization and the Evolution of North American Regional Governance Brian Bow and Arturo Santa Cruz 10. How Do We Get to North America? Stephen Blank 11. Conclusions: Without Architecture, but Not Without Structure Greg Anderson and Brian Bow