From the Publisher: Mexico comprises 32 diverse states, and this reference is the first to succinctly profile each. Each chapter devoted to one of the states provides a contemporary snapshot of the most important information to know about the state, with essay sections on its ch…
This is the first comparative study of an increasingly important phenomenon: the international role and activities of component units of major liberal democratic federal states. The work identifies common themes and explores the reasons for the proliferation of paradiplomatic ac…
This is the first comparative study of an increasingly important phenomenon: the international role and activities of component units of major liberal democratic federal states. The work identifies common themes and explores the reasons for the proliferation of paradiplomatic ac…
"This book examines and systematises the theoretical dimensions of paradiplomacy - the role of subnational governments in international relations. Throughout the world, subnational governments play an active role in international relations by participating in international trade…
"Paradiplomacy, while for the most part unspectacular, represents an important and new dimension both to regionalism and to international relations - further evidence of the breakdown of the distinction between domestic and international affairs and between national and regional…
Offering a general view of the development of subnational foreign action around the world, this work covers topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive consistution of international regimes such as the EU, NAFTA and APEC.
"Paradiplomacy, while for the most part unspectacular, represents an important and new dimension both to regionalism and to international relations - further evidence of the breakdown of the distinction between domestic and international affairs and between national and regional…
"To step in government at only one level or to stay in opposition at both? To opt for a single consistent strategy or to try out various, but sometimes conflicting, formulae? To replicate coalition agreements at the federal level or to adapt them to the regional context, even if…