The Québec-United States Relationship: Political, Security, Economic, Environmental and Cultural Dynamics

Christopher Kirkey is director of the Center for the Study of Canada and Institute on Quebec Studies at State University of New York at Plattsburgh.  A scholar of comparative foreign policy and international relations theory, he has been a professor at Bridgewater State University (1993-2001), Columbia University (2002-2012), and SUNY Plattsburgh (2002 Present).  Recent works include (with Richard Nimijean) The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad (2022, Palgrave Macmillan); the co-edited 2020 issue on Quebec (with Frédérick Guillaume Dufour) of the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies [Vol.50 Fall 2022]; (with Michael Hawes and Andrew Holman) Canada in 1968: A Year and its Legacies (2021, University of Ottawa Mercury Series); the book chapter (with Hawes) "The Trump Administration and Canada: America First," in Timothy M. Gill, ed., The Future of U.S. Empire in the Americas (Routledge, 2020);  theAutumn 2019 co-edited special issue (with Hawes) of the London Journal of Canadian Studies; the June 2019 special issue (co-edited with Hawes, Konan, and Chun) of the American Review of Canadian Studies [Vol.49 No.2] on "Indigenous Peoples: Sovereignty, Sustainability, and Reconciliation;" Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World (co-edited with Hawes) [Oxford University Press, 2017]; "The Quebec Election of April 2014: Initial Impressions," London Journal of Canadian Studies (Vol.32 December 2017); a second edition (co-edited with Gervais and Rudy) of Quebec Questions: Quebec Studies in the Twenty-First Century [Oxford University Press, 2016]; the co-edited June 2016 special issue (with Stéphane Paquin and Stéphane Roussel) on "Quebec and the World" of the American Review of Canadian Studies [Vol.46 No.2]; the Winter 2015-2016 special issue (co-edited with Gervais and Rudy) of Québec Studies; the co-edited special issue (with Tony McCulloch) of the British Journal of Canadian Studies [Vol.28 Issue 2, September 2015]; and, "Systemic Forces and Canadian Foreign Policy," (with Michael Hawes) in Readings in Canadian Foreign Policy: Classic Debates and New Ideas [Oxford University Press, 2015].  He is currently working on several book projects (co-edited and sole authored).  Dr. Kirkey serves on the editorial board of the American Review of Canadian Studies, the International Journal of Canadian Studies, and the London Journal of Canadian Studies.  He is co-editor of the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, and serves as Past President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS).

Frédérick Gagnon is Full Professor, Holder of the Raoul Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, and Director of the Center for United States Studies and of the Center on Multidimensional Conflicts at the University of Québec in Montreal. He is also Global Fellow at the Canada Institute of the Wilson Center. He was Visiting Fulbright Chair at SUNY-Plattsburgh and UC Berkeley (2014-2015), Fulbright grantee at UMASS-Amherst (2005), Visiting Scholar at the Canada Institute of the Wilson Center and at the Center for American Politics and Citizenship of the University of Maryland (2006), Visiting Scholar/Professor at the Center for Canadian-American Studies of Western Washington University (2008), and Visiting Professor at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas (2022). He has published books on Canada-U.S. Relations, Donald Trump's foreign policy, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. Congress, U.S. government and political institutions, the impact of 9/11 on U.S. international relations, Hollywood movies and the U.S. national security state, and on the theories of U.S. foreign policy. One of his latest books, titled Alliances and Power Politics in

Part I. Introduction: The Relevancy of Québec-United States Engagement.- Chapter 1. The Québec-United States Relationship: Contributing Forces and Policy Choices.- Part II. Political and Economic Considerations.- Chapter 2. Living on the Margins of the Empire: Political Relations between Québec and the United States: 1940-2000.- Chapter 3. What Do They Think of Us? American Perceptions of Québec Before, During and After the Trump Presidency.- Chapter 4. Perceptions of the United States and Political Debates in Québec.- Chapter 5. Party Realignment in Québec: Lessons from the United States.- Chapter 6. Québec-U.S. relations: "It's the economy stupid!".- Chapter 7. Between charm offensives and confrontations: a brief portrait of the defense of Québec's commercial interests before American authorities.- Part III. Migration, Regional Cooperation, Climate, Energy, and Commercial Interests.- Chapter 8. The Fantasy of the Québec-United States Border.- Chapter 9. Adapting to Distinct Societies: Québec-U.S. Links in Migration and Refugees.- Chapter 10. Québec's participation in the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers and the Council of Great Lakes Governors, 2012-2023.- Chapter 11. 20 Years of Climate Paradiplomacy between Québec and the United States.- Chapter 12. Decarbonization and Electrification in the Northeast: How the Climate Crisis will foster a new Québec-United States Relationship in Electricity.- Chapter 13. The Dairy Industry as a Source of Conflict between Québec and the United States.- Part IV. The Role and Place of Cultural and Social Environments.- Chapter 14. Québec's Cultural Policy in the United States: From Diplomacy to Industries.- Chapter 15. 7 Fingers Back and Forth Across the Border: A Tale of Two Countries and their Circus Collaborations.- Chapter 16. QAnon's Influence in Québec, from Alexis Cossette-Trudel to Éric Duhaime: Signs of an Americanization of Québec Political Culture?.- Part V. Epilogue: The Intellectual Foundations of the Québec-United States Relationship.- Chapter 17. The Intellectual Foundations of Québec's Americanness:A Historiographical Examination.