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Whose border is it, anyway?: rethinking North America's defences, from smart borders to smart missiles

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From: International Journal
Date: 20030701
Author:Handelman, Stephen

Stephen Handelman, author and journalist, writes the biweekly TIME Canada column "49th Parallel" and is a frequent commentator on North American and international affairs.

"We cannot accept unpaid the sheltering protection of another state."

-Stephen Leacock, 1909

TWO YEARS AFTER THE TERROR ATTACKS on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, North America is a profoundly divided continent. Canada, Mexico and the United States have achieved a level of security co-operation that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, but the lingering sense of vulnerability in the region's most ...

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