The Future of US-Mexico Relations

The Future of US-Mexico Relations

Strategic Foresight

  • Author: Payan, Tony
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558858978
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518506130
  • eISBN Epub: 9781518506116
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2020
  • Pages: 505

The editors of this collection of sixteen articles argue the relationship between the United States and Mexico is at its most tenuous in recent memory. Each article explores the future of US-Mexico relations, focusing on relevant topics such as trade, water, drugs, health, immigration, environmental issues and security. Employing a strategic foresight methodology, the authors use past trends and identify pivotal drivers to predict, based on indicators, at least three possible outcomes for the next few decades: a baseline or continuity scenario, an optimistic version and a pessimistic one. They also articulate the implications each forecast has for both nations. Most chapters are co-written by a scholar from the United States and another from Mexico. While acknowledging it is impossible to predict the future, they nonetheless describe what could occur. Ultimately, the authors of the articles in this fascinating volume make recommendations to achieve a peaceful, integrated and prosperous North America that will drive the world economy. The book is required reading for anyone interested in the binational relationship and the well-being of citizens in both countries.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Future of US-Mexico Relations: Foresight a foreword, Andy Hines and Peter Bishop
  • Introduction, Tony Payan, Jesús Velasco, and Alfonso López de la Osa Escribano
  • Back to the Future: Mexico and the United States, Ana Covarrubias and Peter H. Smith
  • Socio-Demographic, Cultural, and Political Change in the United States: Three Scenarios on the US-Mexico Relationship, Tony Payan and Daniel Tichenor
  • Political and Economic Trends in Mexico and their Effects on US-Mexico’s Binational Relationship, Joy Langston and Jesús Velasco
  • The Future of US-Mexico Relations: The Role of Sub-State Governments, Samuel Lucas McMillan and Jorge A. Schiavon
  • Economic Relations Between Mexico and the United States: The Future of an Inevitable Partnership, Antonio Ortiz-Mena
  • A Foresight Analysis of Border Economies of the United States and Mexico, Jesus Canas and Raúl Alberto Ponce Rodríguez
  • The US-Mexico Borderlands: Exploring Alternative Futures, Jason Ackleson and Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
  • The Future of the US-Mexico Relationship: Strategic Foresight on International Migration, B. Lindsay Lowell and Karla Angélica Valenzuela Moreno
  • Forecasting the Next Twenty-Five Years of the US-Mexico Public Safety and Security Relationship, Nathan J. Jones and Samuel González Ruiz
  • US and Mexico Future Security and Defense Scenarios: From Convergence to Divergence?, Abelardo Rodríguez Sumano and Richard J. Kilroy, Jr
  • Environmental Protection on the Mexico-US Border: Three Scenarios, Stephen Mumme, Irasema Coronado, and Edmundo Molina Pérez
  • US-Mexico Relations from a Health Law Approach: Prospective Elements for Integrated National Healthcare Models, Alfonso López de la Osa Escribano
  • US-Mexico Border: Non-Communicable and Communicable Health Inequalities, Eva Moya, Silvia Chavez-Baray, and Peter Hotez
  • Fossil Fuels Trade Between Mexico and the United States: Possible Scenarios During the López Obrador-Trump Era, Isidro Morales Moreno and Pilar Rodríguez Ibáñez
  • The Future of US-Mexico Relations: Renewable Energy and Electric Power Connections, Gina S. Warren
  • Texas-Mexico Economic Integration and its Uncertain Future, W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm
  • Conclusion, Tony Payan, Jesús Velasco and Alfonso López de la Osa Escribano
  • Author bios

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