Imtiaz Hussain specializes in International Relations/Negotiations, and Conflict Studies. His publications include North American Regionalism and Global Spread (Palgrave 2015); Evaluating NAFTA: Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2013); Border Governance and the ‘Unruly’ South (Palgrave 2013), North America’s Soft Security Threat (Palgrave 2013), Afghanistan-Iraq and Post-conflict Governance (Brill 2010), The Impact of NAFTA on North America (Palgrave 2010), North American Homeland Security (Praeger 2008); Running on Empty Across Central America (University Press of America 2006), and Globalization, Indigenous Groups, and Mexico’s Plan Puebla Plan (Edwin Mellen 2006); and articles in Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence (2008), South Asian Survey (2008), Politics & Policy (2008), Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (2006), Norteamérica (2006); among others. A recipient of over 12 international fellowships and 8 teaching awards, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (1989).
With North Atlantic post-World War II transatlantic dynamics as the subject, this volume inquires if its theoretical tenets hold in other epochs and Atlantic arenas. Both case and comparative studies of such historical cases as the silver, slave, and commodity trades, and whether ideas, such as faith and democracy, have as much impact as these merchandise flows, simultaneously challenge and strengthen the transatlantic paradigm. They permit transatlantic relations to be stretched as far back as to the 8th Century, in turn exposing transatlantic flows hugging global threads, while revealing the strength and size of several unaccounted types of transatlantic transactions, such as the north-south varieties.