The North American Idea is one mans version of the European Idea" also known as the European Union the result of multi-national social economic and political integration of a disparate people. The authors of the recent Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task force report North America: Time for a New Focus point to the last serious effort to deepen North American ties" which occurred during the George W. Bush administration with the formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).North America: Time for a New Focus is an attempt to resuscitate this globalist vision well in advance of the 2016 presidential election in the apparent hope of influencing the victor to pick up the gauntlet and undertake the challenge anew. Quite fittingly this comprehensive task force report is dedicated to the memory of its key member Robert A. Pastor a visionary champion of the North American idea."
Mr. Pastor was arguably the chief architect and proponent of a North American Union or a North American Community as he preferred to call it. Pastor was a university professor latterly at American University in Washington DC a Latin America policy specialist who served in the Carter White House at the National Security Council where his legacy to the chagrin of conservatives in the 1970s was ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. His more lasting legacy however may be yet to come that of a North American Union a gradual process that doesnt happen overnight but one that takes decades. In fact while this process is already underway its resolution although not a certainty may stretch well into the 21st Century. While the process has stalled somewhat it has lasted over two decades already. North America: Time for a New Focus provides the reinvigorated road map to achieving Pastors vision.
A look back
Consequently Robert Pastors 2011 book The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future remains an eye-opening culmination of a lifes work that is well worth reading particularly in tandem with CFRs North America: Time for a New Focus. In the book Pastor describes his vision and reveals how far the U.S. Mexico and Canada have integrated since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed in 1992. Pastor blames America for many of Mexicos and Canadas problems. He recommends impossible utopian solutions for further integration that come directly from a left-wing agenda instructing citizens of all three countries to self-identify as North Americans."
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The North American Idea is one mans version of the European Idea" also known as the European Union the result of multi-national social economic and political integration of a disparate people. The authors of the recent Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task force report North America: Time for a New Focus point to the last serious effort to deepen North American ties" which occurred during the George W. Bush administration with the formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP).North America: Time for a New Focus is an attempt to resuscitate this globalist vision well in advance of the 2016 presidential election in the apparent hope of influencing the victor to pick up the gauntlet and undertake the challenge anew. Quite fittingly this comprehensive task force report is dedicated to the memory of its key member Robert A. Pastor a visionary champion of the North American idea."
Mr. Pastor was arguably the chief architect and proponent of a North American Union or a North American Community as he preferred to call it. Pastor was a university professor latterly at American University in Washington DC a Latin America policy specialist who served in the Carter White House at the National Security Council where his legacy to the chagrin of conservatives in the 1970s was ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. His more lasting legacy however may be yet to come that of a North American Union a gradual process that doesnt happen overnight but one that takes decades. In fact while this process is already underway its resolution although not a certainty may stretch well into the 21st Century. While the process has stalled somewhat it has lasted over two decades already. North America: Time for a New Focus provides the reinvigorated road map to achieving Pastors vision.
A look back
Consequently Robert Pastors 2011 book The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future remains an eye-opening culmination of a lifes work that is well worth reading particularly in tandem with CFRs North America: Time for a New Focus. In the book Pastor describes his vision and reveals how far the U.S. Mexico and Canada have integrated since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed in 1992. Pastor blames America for many of Mexicos and Canadas problems. He recommends impossible utopian solutions for further integration that come directly from a left-wing agenda instructing citizens of all three countries to self-identify as North Americans."
Read the rest of the review at the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research