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The USA and Canada 2024

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-032-49283-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Erscheinungstermin: 07.12.2023
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Combining impartial analysis with reliable facts and figures, this fully revised and updated 26th edition provides up-to-date commentary on these vast North American nations.

 

General Survey

 

Essays by leading experts analyse topics of regional importance, including:

- US-Canadian integration and US foreign policy in the Arctic region.

- a directory of US and Canadian diplomatic representation abroad

- select bibliographies on topics concerning the entire North American region

 

Country Surveys

 

Each country is dealt with in greater detail within its own section. Country chapters include:

- a chronology of political events

- essays covering key socio-political and economic themes, including: recent political developments, foreign policy, the judicial system, the economy, energy policy, and trade

- historical, political and economic surveys of each of the US states and Canadian provinces and territories

- statistical surveys of economic and demographic indicators

- comprehensive directory sections covering public affairs, the economy and society, which provide contact details and other useful information for the most significant institutions in the region.

- select bibliographies on the history, politics, society and economy of each country


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781032492834
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-032-49283-4
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis
  • Erscheinungstermin: 07.12.2023
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 26. Auflage 2023
  • Serie: The Europa Regional Surveys of the World
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 1840 g
  • Seiten: 662
  • Format (B x H): 210 x 280 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
  • Vorauflage: 978-1-032-27382-2
  • Nachauflage: 978-1-032-76108-4

Themen


Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

PART ONE General Survey

 

Essays

               The USA and Canada: Political and Economic Challenges to Deeper Co-operation

ALEXANDER MOENS and TAYLOR JACKSON   

              

US Foreign Policy in the Arctic Region: Times of Change or Continuity?

JOËL PLOUFFE

 

Directory

 

 

PART TWO The USA

 

Introduction

 

Essays

The System of Government and Politics in the USA

GILLIAN PEELE

The Challenges of US Foreign Policy: Great Power Rivalry, Transnational Threats and Domestic Instability

TREVOR McCRISKEN

 

The Biden Administration and US Energy Policy: Setting a New Path in a Period of International Crisis

DAVID HASTINGS DUNN

 

US Defence Policy: An Historical Perspective

ALEXANDRA HOMOLAR

The Judicial System of the USA

SIDNEY SHANK, YAO YAO and GBEMENDE JOHNSON (based on an earlier essay by CHRIS W. BONNEAU and HEATHER-MARIE RICE)

 

The Role of Religion in Contemporary US Politics

GILLIAN PEELE

 

Diversity and Equality in the USA

GILLIAN PEELE

Economic Overview of the USA

ROBERT E. LOONEY

 

US Federal Debt and Fiscal Governance

DENNIS S. IPPOLITO

 

Agriculture: History, Policy and Emerging Issues

JAMES W. DUNN (based on earlier article by THEODORE R. ALTER and MILTON HALLBERG, revised by the editorial staff)

 

US Service-providing Industries

P. W. DANIELS (revised by the editorial staff)

 

US Manufacturing in Transition

ROBERT E. LOONEY

 

The USA and International Trade

ROBERT E. LOONEY

 

Directory

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

THE ECONOMY

SOCIETY

 

The States of the Union and the District of Columbia

 

 

PART THREE Canada

 

Introduction

 

Essays

Contemporary Canadian Politics

STEVE HEWITT

 

Justin Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy

DUANE BRATT

Canada: The Courts and the Charter

DAVID ROBERTSON

 

Overview of the Canadian Economy

ROBERT E. LOONEY

 

Canadian Federal Energy Policy in Transition: A Period of Uncertainty

ROBERT E. LOONEY

 

Canadian Manufacturing and Construction

ROBERT E. LOONEY

 

Services Industries in Canada

ROBERT E. LOONEY

 

               Directory

               PUBLIC AFFAIRS

               THE ECONOMY

               SOCIETY

 

               The Provinces and Territories of the Dominion