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Record W4407576728 · doi:10.4337/9781035326570.00005

Introduction: the North American idea, redux?

2025· book-chapter· en· W4407576728 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Greg Anderson, Christopher J. Kukucha

Bibliographic record

VenueEdward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Policy and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReduxHistoryEngineering

Abstract

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This chapter explores the concept of North America through various indigenous, literary, political, cultural, environmental, economic, and historical perspectives. It also focuses on North America as a region, with different borderlands separating Canada, the United States and Mexico, and shifting attitudes towards sovereignty, fluctuating between continental integration post-North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the hardened borders and securitization after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Asymmetries of power related to culture, security, and economics also shape institutions and ideas of a potential “project North America.” Perhaps most importantly, however, the introduction highlights an “epistemic desert” regarding the study of North America, tied to a lack of funding and limited trilateral intellectual engagement, especially in contrast to Europe. This volume is an attempt to bring North American scholars and practitioners together to partially address these shortcomings. What it identifies are market realities and incremental institutional changes that promote closer ties, but also many social, political, economic, environmental, cultural, and nationalist boundaries that continue to serve as barriers to cooperation and integration. To explore these challenges, the introduction and volume focus on comparisons with other regional experiments, the impact of NAFTA, and the relationship between trade and security, both in terms of cooperation and in a normative context.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.953
Threshold uncertainty score0.093

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.005
Scholarly communication0.0060.005
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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