1. Bonne gouvernance: un espace pour la diplomatie subétatique dans la coopération transfrontalière?
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ASTROZA SUÁREZ, Paulina
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DIPLOMACY , *GEOGRAPHIC boundaries , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *SPECIALISTS , *GLOBALIZATION - Abstract
Based on the literature of paradiplomacy or sub-state diplomacy, we have sought a link between the concepts of good governance, sub-state diplomacy and border. In a context of great changes, both at the international and internal level, and before the questioning of several concepts and preconceptions, the transformation of the nation state, leads us to explore dimensions that in the past have been neglected or considered "second rate", but that every day become more relevant in human relations and state. The boundaries and dimensions that arise from them as well as the evolution of actors in the international arena, open a space of interest to specialists in international relations and for policy makers. The globalisation and integration processes -above the state- and internal claims -under it- will influence the intensification of the international activity of the sub-units in which cross-border cooperation is dynamic and multifaceted. Good governance, as a response to the challenges of managing public affairs in a world in transformation and subject to the uncertainty that it implies, is in the sub-dimension level. With more porous borders and multiple governance at this level, it is even more complex. Europe, with its construction process and its regional policy, as a scenario of changes, is an example of this - not always easy - relationship between good governance / sub state diplomacy / border. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013