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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

The European Union as a laboratory of paradiplomacy in the context of international and domestic determinants of regions’ foreign activities

2019, 2019, No. 3

Barbara Curyło

0000-0002-4576-0391

Uniwersytet Opolski, Katedra Stosunków Międzynarodowych

Uniwersytet Opolski

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.5838

Publication date

19.11.2019

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

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international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

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English, Polish

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to propose an analytical framework of the EU as a laboratory of paradiplomacy in context of international and domestic determinants of the regions’ foreign activities. The article shades some light on the definitions of paradyplomacy, which allow to understand the ambiguity of the status of regions in international relations. Firstly, the dimensions and types of paradiplomacy are identified. Secondly, the discourse concerning international and domestic determinants of international engagement of regional governments is identified. Then, the framework of the EU as a laboratory of paradiplomacy is explained in the three subsequent parts. Firstly, the EU is referred to as an intermestic determinant of paradiplomacy, what results from the specific nature of the EU that corresponds with the international and domestic determinants of paradiplomacy in general. Secondly, the EU is addressed as an arena of paradiplomacy where various patterns of regional governments’ presence in Brussels are tested. Finally, paradiplomacy in the EU is addressed as a scholarly challenge for the further research.

Keywords:

paradiplomacy,EU,international determinants,domestic determinants

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