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…
"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…
