Hemispheric Integration and Social Cohesion Summer Institute
The Americas After September 11: Summer Institute 2002 Program
Part 1: Hemispheric Integration:
The New Security Agenda


Monday July 8

9:00 a.m.   Welcome Daniel Drache and Jean Daudelin, Co-Directors SI

9:30   The Americas After September 11: Current Policy Dilemmas For Government and Society. Where are We Headed?

Jean Daudelin, Human Security and Hemispheric Integration
Daniel Drache FTAA, Trade Liberalization and Borders

10:30   Coffee

10:45   The Changing Security Agenda: A Round Table on the Impact of September 11th Contrasting National Perspectives

Rut Diamint, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
Antonio Jorge R. Da Rocha, University of Brasília, Brazil
Giancarlo Soler Torrijos, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Panama/México
Diego Cardona, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
1:00pm   Lunch

2:15   Trade Liberalization and human security implications. A round table on the social impact of NAFTA, MERCOSUR and the FTAA

Welber Barral, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Gabriela Rodríguez López, FLACSO, Argentina


Tuesday July 9

9:00a.m.   Social Exclusion and Human Security: Crime, Policing and the Privatization of Security

Eduardo Paes Machado, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil: Policing, Crime and Social Rights
Jean Daudelin, North-South Institute/ Carleton University, Canada: Crime, Insecurity and Social Exclusion

10:30   Coffee

10:45   Part II

1:00pm   Lunch

2:15   Integration and the Bush National Security Agenda

Alejandro Chanona, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México: Is There a Place for México in Homeland Defence?
Mathieu Arès, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada: The Security Dilemmas of North American Economic Integration


Wednesday July 10

9:00a.m.   Hemispheric Integration After September 11: What Policy Shift?

Rut Diamint, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina: The New Security Agenda and Democratic Regimes
Victor López Villafañe, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México: Dealing Economic Insecurity: Fox and the Changing US Agenda

10:30   Coffee

10:45   The Southern Perimeter

Antonio Jorge R. Da Rocha, University of Brasília, Brazil: The Uncertain Outlook of Regional Integration
Diego Cardona, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia: Redefining Security in the Americas: The Fundamentals

1:00pm   Lunch

2:15   Drugs, Money and Governance: Getting a Handle on Hemispheric Realities

Silvia E. Vélez Quero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México Hot Borders, Regional Integration and the Narco-Trade
Lina Paola Cifuentes, COTECNA Inspection S.A./ Universidad del Rosario, Colombia: The Security Dilemmas of Trade Liberalization

5:00   Hollywood North? Securing Canadian Identity: An Evening with Seth Feldman


Part 2: The Northern Model:
Canada, Hemispheric Integration and Human Security

Thursday July 11

9:00a.m.   Social Equity: The Canadian Dilemma -- the Costs and Benefits of A Decade of Economic Integration Corporate Canada vs Social Canada

Daniel Drache, York University, Canada, US: Separate, Unequal But Parallel?
Harry Arthurs, York University, Canada: Corporate Governance and the New North America

10:30   Coffee

10:45   Social and Health Security: Canada's Vulnerable Social Programs

Terry Sullivan, Cancer Care Ontario, Canada: Health Reform: Reforming Canada's Health System

1:00pm   Lunch

2:15   Sharing the 49th Parallel -- Homeland Defence, Immigration and Human Rights

Howard Adelman, York University, Canada: Immigration, Human Rights and Homeland Defence: A Canada-US Comparison
David Dewitt, York University, Canada: The Canada-US Border After September 11th


Friday July 12

9:00a.m.   Social Exclusion in Canada: The Marginalized Homelessness, Street Kids and Poverty

Michael Bach, Canadian Association for Community Living, Canada: Inequality and State Policy: Neo-Liberalism and Social Reform
Diane Richler, Canada, Inclusion International, Disability and Social Exclusion

10:30   Coffee

10:45   Part II

1:00pm   Lunch

2:15   Political Culture and Canadian Cultural Identity: A Fragile Balance

David Bell, York University, Canada: The Canadian Quandary: The Collective We vs. the Individual I
Joyce Zemans, York University, Canada: Canadian Cultural Policy and Uncle Sam


Saturday July 13   Free Day

Sunday July 14   Free day



Part 3: Hemispheric Options in a Turbulent Environment

Monday July 15

9:00a.m.   The State, Public Domain and Human Security: Who Falls Through the Cracks? Are Governments Picking up the Slack?

Manuel Gonazález Oropeza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México: State Capacity and Human Security: Closing the Institutional Gap
Clara Salazar Cruz, El Colegio de México, México: Poverty, Government Policy and Exclusion in Latin American Cities
Jorge F. Vibes, Universidad de Buenos Aires/ Statistics and Census Institute, Argentina: When the State Breaks Down: Civil Society and the Argentinean Crisis

10:30   Coffee

10:45   Troubled Governance and the Military: Entrenching Democracy?

Giancarlo Soler Torrijos, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Panama/México: Latin American Democracies in Crisis: Venezuela and Argentina in a Moment of Truth
Maria Celina D'Araujo, Fundação Getulio Vargas/ Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil: Citizen Rights, National Defence and Security

1:00pm   Lunch

2:15   Elites and the Private Sector: How Secure is their Ghetto?

A Round Table of National Perspectives


Tuesday July 16

9:00a.m.   Gender Relations: Any Good News? A Round Table by Participants

10:30   Coffee

10:45   Part II

1:00pm   Lunch

2:15   Health, Environment and Human Security in the Americas

Miriam Alfie Cohen, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, México: Environmental Security and Economic Integration
Norah A. Schwartz, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, México: Reverse Flow: When Insecurity Drives Rich People to Poor Countries


Wednesday July 17

9:00a.m.   Multilateralism From Below: Between Post-September 11 and Porto Alegre Is There Still a Space for Hemispheric Civil Society?

Gabriela Rodríguez López, FLACSO, Argentina: Quebec Summit Blues: Civil Society After September 11
Patty Barrera, Common Frontiers, Canada: Quebec Summit Blues: Civil Society After September 11

10:30   Coffee Break

10:45   Part II

1:00pm   Lunch

2:15   Prospects for Multilateralism: Governments and Inter-Governmental Organizations (IDB, OAS, CEPAL, World Bank and Others) After September 11?

Welber Barral, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil: Mercosur and the Security Challenges of the Southern Cone
Sylvia Ostry, University of Toronto, Canada: September 11th, Trade Liberalization and the FTAA


Thursday July 18

9:00a.m.   Conclusions and Future Directions: Integration and Human Security in the Americas: A General Discussion by All Participants

1:30pm   Lunch