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Zusatztext 'For those of us interested in this topic! Paradiplomacy in Action is a must read! recognising that we might want to pick and choose the articles that best reflect our needs and research agendas" - International Politics Informationen zum Autor Aldecoa, Francisco; Keating, Dr Michael Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This work contributes to a better understanding of the growing subnational involvement in foreign affairs, offering a general view of the most prominent aspects in the development of subnational foreign action around the world, Inhaltsverzeichnis Region and international affairs - motives, opportunities and strategies, Michael Keating; patrolling the frontier - globalization, localization and the actorness of non-central governments, Brian Hocking; diplomacy and paradiplomacy in the redefinition of international security - dimensions of conflict and co-operation, Noe Cornago; the European Union and inter-regional co-operation, Kepa Sodupe; towards plurinational diplomacy in the deeper and wider European Union, (1985-2005), Francisco Aldecoa; the other dimension of third level politics in Europe - the congress of local and regional powers of the Council of Europe, Jose Luis de Castro; the international competence of US states and their local governments, John Kincaid; federal-state relations in Australian external affairs - a new co-operative era? John Ravenhill; the Quebec experience - success or failure? Louis Balthazar; the international relations of Basque nationalism and the first Basque autonomous government (1890-1939), Alexander Ugalde; making sense of paradiplomacy? an intertextual inquiry about a concept in search of a definition, Inaki Aguirre....