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Author Duran, Manuel

Title Mediterranean Paradiplomacies : the Dynamics of Diplomatic Reterritorialization
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (420 pages)
Series Diplomatic Studies
Diplomatic studies.
Contents Mediterranean Paradiplomacies: The Dynamics of Diplomatic Reterritorialization; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Case of Mediterranean Paradiplomacy and Its Broader Relevance; 1.2 Problem Statement and Main Questions; 1.3 Ontological Perspectives, Methodology and Case Selection; 1.3.1 Ontological Perspectives; 1.3.2 Methodology; 1.3.3 Case Selection; 1.4 The Book's Structure; 2: Conceptualizations of Paradiplomacy; 2.1 An Archaeology of Paradiplomacy; 2.1.1 The Term "Paradiplomacy."
2.1.2 The False Embassy and the Ambassador of God2.1.3 Christian Diplomacy and Diplomacy of the Church; 2.1.4 Hybrids and Corsairs; 2.1.5 Diasporas and Cities; 2.2 Contemporary Paradiplomacy; 2.2.1 Territory, Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization; 2.2.2 The Level of Analysis within IR; 2.2.3 Reterritorializing Diplomacy; 2.2.4 Mediterranean Substate Entities; 2.2.5 Substate Diplomacy or Paradiplomacy; 2.3 Conclusion; 3: Diplomacy between Self, Other and Same; 3.1 Explanandum (1): Paradiplomacy; 3.2 Explanans (1): Ecological Triad; 3.2.1 Operational Milieu; 3.2.2 Psychological Milieu
3.3 Explanandum (2): Patterns of Reterritorialization3.4 Explanans (2): The Practice of Paradiplomacy; 3.5 Coda: Explaining the Explananda; 4: The Mediterranean as a Space of Thought; 4.1 Mediterranean Thinking; 4.2 Mediterranean Encounters; 4.3 Mediterranean Diplomacy; 4.3.1 The Mediterranean Diplomacies of France; 4.3.2 The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor in the Mediterranean; 4.4 Conclusion; 5: The Mediterranean Substate Entities; 5.1 Italy; 5.1.1 Paradiplomacy all'italiana; 5.1.2 The Region of Emilia-Romagna; 5.1.3 The Region of Puglia
5.1.4 Conclusion: The Geopolitical DNA for Italian Regions5.2 France; 5.2.1 The French Institutional Context: The Millefeuille Institutionnel Français; 5.2.2 The Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur; 5.2.3 The Region of Languedoc-Roussillon; 5.2.4 Conclusion: The Geopolitical DNA for French Regions; 5.3 Spain; 5.3.1 Spanish Devolution; 5.3.2 The Historic Nation of Catalonia; 5.3.3 The Autonomous Community of Andalusia; 5.3.4 Conclusion: The Geopolitical DNA for Spanish Autonomous Communities; 5.4 Conclusion; 6: Diplomatic Representation; 6.1 Conceptualizing Representation
6.2 Formalistic Representation6.3 Substantive Representation; 6.3.1 EU Representation; 6.3.2 Political Representation: Mimicking the State; 6.3.3 Economic Diplomacy: The Network of Commercial Representation; 6.3.4 Other Forms of Representation: Cultural Houses; 6.4 The Diplomatic Audience; 6.5 Symbolic Representation; 6.6 Conclusion: Reterritorializing Representation; 7: Paradiplomacy as Communication; 7.1 Diplomacy as Communication; 7.2 Language; 7.3 Presenting the Diplomatic Self; 7.3.1 Images: Cartographic Maps; 7.3.2 Words: Mental Maps, Discursive Traces of Geopolitical Goals
Summary In 'Mediterranean paradiplomacies: The dynamics of diplomatic reterritorialization', Manuel Duran presents a new view on the phenomenon of paradiplomacy by analyzing the diplomatic activities of a number of Mediterranean substate entities as a site of political territorialization. The international agency of these substate entities is giving way to new patterns of territorialization, as well as alternative forms of diplomacy.00Duran examines the diplomatic activities of two Spanish, two French and two Italian regions. The book poses the question of why and how these regions operate diplomatically in a given territorial milieu and convincingly elucidates the particular patterns of reterritorialization that result from these diplomatic activities
Notes 7.4 Public and Cultural Diplomacy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Diplomacy.
diplomacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Diplomacy
Diplomatic relations
France.
Spain.
Italy.
Mediterranean countries.
Public diplomacy.
Autonomous territories.
Diplomacy.
SUBJECT Mediterranean Region -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083232
Subject Mediterranean Region
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004285415
9789004285408
9004285407
9789004285415