The Regionalism of North America under US Dominance

• Authors: Katarzyna Gruszko

Title variants

PL

Regionalizm północnoamerykański w warunkach dominacji Stanów Zjednoczonych.

Abstracts

PL

NAFTA i Partnerstwo dla Bezpieczeństwa i Dobrobytu (SPP) są najważniejszymi inicjatywami integracyjnymi, które wyznaczają kierunek i formę nowego regionalizmu w Ameryce Północnej. Integracja północnoamerykańska ma odmienne źródła i specyfikę od europejskiej, czy azjatyckiej. Stany Zjednoczone jako mocarstwo globalne i regionalne decydują o strukturze wzajemnych relacji, które przybierają formę raczej „podwójnie dwustronną” niż wielostronną. Jako państwo najsilniejsze, USA preferują pełną autonomię działania i z niechęcią odnoszą się do możliwości pogłębienia integracji, czy budowania ponadnarodowej płaszczyzny współpracy. Przedsięwzięcia integracyjne w Ameryce Północnej, w które Stany Zjednoczone się zaangażowały, są traktowane jako narzędzia polityki regionalnej i służą ochronie ich interesów w najbliższym sąsiedztwie. Pomimo że w ramach NAFT-y kwestie gospodarcze dominują nad politycznymi, po ataku na WTC dołączyła do nich sprawa bezpieczeństwa. Utworzenie SPP, opartego na dwóch uzupełniających się filarach, miało na celu przekształcenie struktury wzajemnych relacji w trójstronną i zainicjowanie budowania wspólnoty północnoamerykańskiej.

EN

NAFTA and Security and Prosperity Partnership are the most important regional integration initiatives which determine the way and form of a new regionalism in North America. The North American integration has different roots and characteristics from the European and Asian ones. The United States as the global and regional power determines this regionalism and makes it rather ‘duallybilateral’ than multilateral. Because of its hegemonic position, the US prefers full autonomy and is reluctant both to deepen the North American cooperation and build supranational grounds for such cooperation. Several integration initiatives may be considered the US regional policy tool to protect its peripheral interests. Although under NAFTA economic issues prevail political ones, after 9/11 security issues have dominated relations in this integration grouping. Security and Prosperity Partnership which combined two compatible issues was meant to make the relations trilateral and initiate the process of building a North American community.

Keywords

EN

North America; NAFTA; Security and Prosperity Partnership; Regionalism; US Foreign Policy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologiczne
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 40
• Pages: 118-128

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Gruszko

• Political Science Institute, The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce.

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/athena.2013.40.08

Biblioteka Nauki

2154748