EUROPE AND BEYOND: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUB-STATE PARADIPLOMACY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CATALONIA
This article will argue that the locus of effective political power is no longer monopolised by national governments but is effectively distributed between national, regional and international levels. Subnational governments are no longer minor actors in the area of intergovernmental collaboratio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of Society and Politics |
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| Online Access: | http://rjsp.politice.ro/files/June2012/chambers.pdf |
| Summary: | This article will argue that the locus of effective political power is no longer
monopolised by national governments but is effectively distributed between
national, regional and international levels. Subnational governments are
no longer minor actors in the area of intergovernmental collaboration. This
article will explore the phenomenon of substate paradiplomacy in order to
highlight the transformation of the European nation-state as a result of
the combined forces of globalisation and regionalisation. It seems likely
in the Catalan case that the regional government is attempting to raise its
international profile while ensuring that its promotion of Catalan interests
on the EU and international level does not conflict with those of Spain. |
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| ISSN: | 1582-5795 2393-3224 |