Bridging boundaries: creating linkages : non-central governments and multilayered policy environments
Observers of international politics have been conscious of the growing international involvement of non-central governments (NCGs), particularly in federal systems. These have been supplemented by the internationalisation of subnational actors in quasi-federal and even unitary states. One of the dif...
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Universität Potsdam
1996
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| Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-11126 http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/1112/ |
| Summary: | Observers of international politics have been conscious of the growing international involvement
of non-central governments (NCGs), particularly in federal systems. These have
been supplemented by the internationalisation of subnational actors in quasi-federal and even
unitary states. One of the difficulties is that analysis has often been locked into the dominant
paradigm debate in International Relations concerning who and who are not significant
actors. Having briefly explored the nature of this changing environment, marked by a
growing emphasis on access rather than control as a policy objective and the emergence of
what is termed a 'catalytic diplomacy', the discussion focuses on the need for linkage
between the levels of government in the pursuit of international as well as domestic policy
goals. The nature of linkage mechanisms are discussed.
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