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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
From 2001 to 2005 Canada and the US dramatically altered the way each country views its border. In response to the attacks on New York City and Washington DC, Canada and the US entered into three important partnerships: the Smart Borders Agreement (SBA), the Container Security Initiative (CSI), and the Security Prosperity Partnership (SPP). These arrangements will be conceptualised here as "tacit bargains" whereby Canada provided the US with security in hope of renewed trust and economic accessibility. These "tacit bargains" required a concession of traditional state sovereignty so that stable and predictable relations between both countries could continue. While this process is ostensibly a violation of state sovereignty, the argument presented here is that these three "tacit bargains" represent a transition of "old" sovereignty to "new" sovereignty.
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