This is something of a revolution in paradiplomacy! Traditionally and obviously NYC has been zealously symbolically pro Israel (even if tacitly willing to facilitate the UN and work with eg Palestinian delegations). This is reminiscent of boycotts against South Africa…a big blow to Netanyahu
July 22, 2026 at 3:24 AM
This is something of a revolution in paradiplomacy! Traditionally and obviously NYC has been zealously symbolically pro Israel (even if tacitly willing to facilitate the UN and work with eg Palestinian delegations). This is reminiscent of boycotts against South Africa…a big blow to Netanyahu
Florida was the model for this, as my recent @fpajrnl.bsky.social article discusses
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Educational links is NOT just soft power and it CAN be weaponized!
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Educational links is NOT just soft power and it CAN be weaponized!
May 28, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Florida was the model for this, as my recent @fpajrnl.bsky.social article discusses
academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...
Educational links is NOT just soft power and it CAN be weaponized!
academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...
Educational links is NOT just soft power and it CAN be weaponized!
... more visible and will have more power, will be able to build national careers, and will have close connections to major cities like Bălți and other pro-RU strongholds. All regions will hopefully be able to engage in more paradiplomacy, ...
October 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
... more visible and will have more power, will be able to build national careers, and will have close connections to major cities like Bălți and other pro-RU strongholds. All regions will hopefully be able to engage in more paradiplomacy, ...
I’m going to make this all about me: you NEED to be paying attention to state and local Republican officials and foreign policy because it does matter. Really! Here’s my very recent article on Republicans going after state higher ed links with China
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July 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I’m going to make this all about me: you NEED to be paying attention to state and local Republican officials and foreign policy because it does matter. Really! Here’s my very recent article on Republicans going after state higher ed links with China
academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...
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Cabinet secretary Angus Robertson’s meeting last week with Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UK was a damaging folly. The Scottish government’s pretensions to paradiplomacy should go back to baby steps. My latest blog
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
Scotland’s Paradiplomacy Bites the Dust
Cabinet secretary Angus Robertson’s meeting last week with Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UK was a damaging folly. The Scottish government’s pretensions to paradiplomacy should go back to baby step...
open.substack.com
August 15, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Cabinet secretary Angus Robertson’s meeting last week with Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UK was a damaging folly. The Scottish government’s pretensions to paradiplomacy should go back to baby steps. My latest blog
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
The @rsa-tpg.bsky.social Best Paper Award goes to Gonzalo Álvarez and Cristian Ovando Santana for 'Indigenous People and Paradiplomacy: Confronting the State-centric Order from Latin American Transborder Spaces’. Watch the recording ww.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-tpg-best-paper/
June 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The @rsa-tpg.bsky.social Best Paper Award goes to Gonzalo Álvarez and Cristian Ovando Santana for 'Indigenous People and Paradiplomacy: Confronting the State-centric Order from Latin American Transborder Spaces’. Watch the recording ww.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-tpg-best-paper/
A less fragile administration might be more comfortable with admitting this kind of paradiplomacy can be positive and impactful. But not this UK government. Instead? The cringe. Today's @scotnational.bsky.social column. www.thenational.scot/politics/260...
Paranoid Labour are scorning the crucial art of para-diplomacy
ONE of the more scurrilous theories which swirled around Anas Sarwar’s surprising decision to perform a one-man hit on Sir Keir Starmer back in…
www.thenational.scot
May 3, 2026 at 7:40 PM
A less fragile administration might be more comfortable with admitting this kind of paradiplomacy can be positive and impactful. But not this UK government. Instead? The cringe. Today's @scotnational.bsky.social column. www.thenational.scot/politics/260...
Escribimos un artículo con M.Calvento para la Revista TIP - Trabajos de Investigación en #Paradiplomacia, editada por @Paradiplomacia y Paradiplomacy Lab @unilodz de Polonia, titulado: Characterization of #Paradiplomacy Training in Argentine Universities
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August 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Escribimos un artículo con M.Calvento para la Revista TIP - Trabajos de Investigación en #Paradiplomacia, editada por @Paradiplomacia y Paradiplomacy Lab @unilodz de Polonia, titulado: Characterization of #Paradiplomacy Training in Argentine Universities
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#CleanAir #PublicHealth #Governance #Leadership #Pioneers #Ecosystem #Paradiplomacy #Projections
#Aerospace #Technologies #GreenEnergy #Synergies
#Aerospace #Technologies #GreenEnergy #Synergies
March 28, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The Routledge Handbook of Paradiplomacy is out. Our team member Dr. Igor Ksenicz contributed an article on paradiplomacy in Poland.
🔹Editors: Jorge A. Schiavon, Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska, Tomasz Kamiński, Rafael Velázquez Flores.
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🔹Editors: Jorge A. Schiavon, Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska, Tomasz Kamiński, Rafael Velázquez Flores.
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©routledge.com
@viadrina.eu @kiu-network.bsky.social
April 14, 2026 at 11:43 AM
The Routledge Handbook of Paradiplomacy is out. Our team member Dr. Igor Ksenicz contributed an article on paradiplomacy in Poland.
🔹Editors: Jorge A. Schiavon, Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska, Tomasz Kamiński, Rafael Velázquez Flores.
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©routledge.com
@viadrina.eu @kiu-network.bsky.social
🔹Editors: Jorge A. Schiavon, Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska, Tomasz Kamiński, Rafael Velázquez Flores.
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©routledge.com
@viadrina.eu @kiu-network.bsky.social
Working on a project about the paradiplomacy of far-right mayors/local leaders. Brussels has unsurprisingly been a target of far-right paradiplomacy. It appears Ukraine now may be, as well, after a mayor removed Ukraine's flag from city hall (france24.com/en/live-news...).
Several French far-right mayors take down EU flags
Several recently elected far-right mayors have taken down European Union flags from the facades of their town halls, in a move the French government denounced as "populism".
france24.com
March 30, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Working on a project about the paradiplomacy of far-right mayors/local leaders. Brussels has unsurprisingly been a target of far-right paradiplomacy. It appears Ukraine now may be, as well, after a mayor removed Ukraine's flag from city hall (france24.com/en/live-news...).
My article on U.S.-Russian paradiplomacy during RU's invasion of Ukraine is out with Urban Studies. It's part of a special issue on cities as global actors in international politics, with lots of fantastic contributors and editors. If you're interested in paradiplomacy, ...
April 9, 2026 at 12:53 PM
My article on U.S.-Russian paradiplomacy during RU's invasion of Ukraine is out with Urban Studies. It's part of a special issue on cities as global actors in international politics, with lots of fantastic contributors and editors. If you're interested in paradiplomacy, ...
📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣
✅ (WS N) Paradiplomacy Through Interdisciplinary Lenses: Bridging Different Perspectives on International Cooperation of Regions and Cities
✅ (WS N) Paradiplomacy Through Interdisciplinary Lenses: Bridging Different Perspectives on International Cooperation of Regions and Cities
January 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📣 EWIS 2025 WORKSHOPS 📣
✅ (WS N) Paradiplomacy Through Interdisciplinary Lenses: Bridging Different Perspectives on International Cooperation of Regions and Cities
✅ (WS N) Paradiplomacy Through Interdisciplinary Lenses: Bridging Different Perspectives on International Cooperation of Regions and Cities
26 days later: Starlink deal still on, and a partisan campaign trip to Washington disguised as paradiplomacy while the country faces an existential threat.
Lots of rhetoric but I still can't see any empirical evidence for crisis leadership skills required to "protect Ontario".
Lots of rhetoric but I still can't see any empirical evidence for crisis leadership skills required to "protect Ontario".
The COVID-19 pandemic was the litmus test for crisis leadership.
Considering his poor performance back then, Doug Ford should never have emerged as "Captain Canada".
Memory fades, which is why I wrote a short op-ed ⬇️
www.therecord.com/opinion/cont...
Considering his poor performance back then, Doug Ford should never have emerged as "Captain Canada".
Memory fades, which is why I wrote a short op-ed ⬇️
www.therecord.com/opinion/cont...
Doug Ford is not the crisis leader he pretends to be
Considering his handling of COVID-19, is he able to take on Donald Trump?
www.therecord.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
26 days later: Starlink deal still on, and a partisan campaign trip to Washington disguised as paradiplomacy while the country faces an existential threat.
Lots of rhetoric but I still can't see any empirical evidence for crisis leadership skills required to "protect Ontario".
Lots of rhetoric but I still can't see any empirical evidence for crisis leadership skills required to "protect Ontario".
In this great collection, I examine how India’s foreign policy, traditionally centralized in New Delhi, has become increasingly shaped by regional actors, using insights from paradiplomacy & coalition politics scholarships @andrewwyatt.bsky.social @katadeney.bsky.social @wilfriedswenden.bsky.social
Honored to have contributed to this excellent collection edited by @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social of papers looking at how domestic changes have shaped India's foreign policy over time but especially the last decade. I focused on the regional origins of India's FP
www.ippjournal.org/volume-5-num...
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Volume 5, Number 3, Winter 2025
Editor’s Introduction
Rahul Mukherji
Guest Editor’s Introduction: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy in Contemporary India
Rohan Mukherjee
RESEARCH
Provincializing India’s Foreign Policy: Unpacking ...
www.ippjournal.org
March 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
In this great collection, I examine how India’s foreign policy, traditionally centralized in New Delhi, has become increasingly shaped by regional actors, using insights from paradiplomacy & coalition politics scholarships @andrewwyatt.bsky.social @katadeney.bsky.social @wilfriedswenden.bsky.social
Interesting @globalpolicy.bsky.social paper on realism and diplomacy:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Classical Realism, Practices, and Paradiplomacy: The International Activities of Canadian Provinces
This article proposes a general theory of paradiplomacy based on Hans J. Morgenthau's classical realism (emphasizing emotions) and practices. It tests this theory on Canadian provincial international....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Interesting @globalpolicy.bsky.social paper on realism and diplomacy:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Degrees of Rivalry: U.S. Paradiplomacy and the Weaponization of Education Policy against Japan and China
@fpa-isa.bsky.social
Paul Musgrave
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@fpa-isa.bsky.social
Paul Musgrave
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Degrees of Rivalry: U.S. Paradiplomacy and the Weaponization of Education Policy against Japan and China
Abstract. Both education and subnational governments have been stereotyped as promoting cooperation and soft power in international relations. In 2023, how
academic.oup.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Degrees of Rivalry: U.S. Paradiplomacy and the Weaponization of Education Policy against Japan and China
@fpa-isa.bsky.social
Paul Musgrave
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@fpa-isa.bsky.social
Paul Musgrave
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🚨OUT NOW🚨
Musgrave (2026) explains why subnational governments use education policy for adversarial paradiplomacy, from San Francisco's treatment of Japanese students in the early 1900s to public opinion on Florida's restrictions on Chinese researchers.
doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...
Musgrave (2026) explains why subnational governments use education policy for adversarial paradiplomacy, from San Francisco's treatment of Japanese students in the early 1900s to public opinion on Florida's restrictions on Chinese researchers.
doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...
January 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🚨OUT NOW🚨
Musgrave (2026) explains why subnational governments use education policy for adversarial paradiplomacy, from San Francisco's treatment of Japanese students in the early 1900s to public opinion on Florida's restrictions on Chinese researchers.
doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...
Musgrave (2026) explains why subnational governments use education policy for adversarial paradiplomacy, from San Francisco's treatment of Japanese students in the early 1900s to public opinion on Florida's restrictions on Chinese researchers.
doi.org/10.1093/fpa/...
Paradiplomacy and Independence in the EU: Where is Scotland Going? My first blog on my new substack, please do sign up for my regular newsletter on things Scotland, European and more
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October 27, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Paradiplomacy and Independence in the EU: Where is Scotland Going? My first blog on my new substack, please do sign up for my regular newsletter on things Scotland, European and more
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
Fellow professors, esp. those looking for in-class simulations/games to discuss paradiplomacy: I've developed a simulation on sister-cities, focused on a debate about maintaining or suspending ties with partners in light of geopolitical conflict. Students did an excellent job ...
March 26, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Fellow professors, esp. those looking for in-class simulations/games to discuss paradiplomacy: I've developed a simulation on sister-cities, focused on a debate about maintaining or suspending ties with partners in light of geopolitical conflict. Students did an excellent job ...
Archival find today about Soviet Moldova's paradiplomacy: Bender's 1st sister-city partnership was with Italy's Cavriago. Cavriago is one of the few Western cities with a Lenin statue, and the book in the picture says that locals declared Lenin as an honorary mayor in 1921...
August 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Archival find today about Soviet Moldova's paradiplomacy: Bender's 1st sister-city partnership was with Italy's Cavriago. Cavriago is one of the few Western cities with a Lenin statue, and the book in the picture says that locals declared Lenin as an honorary mayor in 1921...
States will have to run rearguard actions to remain in contact with those who are deported. Paradiplomacy is the motto. Liberal states’ rights is the motto.
Today's SCOTUS decision means that the Trump administration may prematurely terminate TPS for Haiti, Syria, and any other country it wishes, without bothering to offer any legitimate justification or following the procedures required by Congress, because courts cannot review the decision.
June 25, 2026 at 2:32 PM
States will have to run rearguard actions to remain in contact with those who are deported. Paradiplomacy is the motto. Liberal states’ rights is the motto.
Very happy to see our article (co-authored with Brett Manzer) published and available. It was a lot of fun to write! #paradiplomacy brill.com/view/journal...
March 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Very happy to see our article (co-authored with Brett Manzer) published and available. It was a lot of fun to write! #paradiplomacy brill.com/view/journal...
... But I expect I'll also be posting about paradiplomacy, Romania, IR, movies, TV shows, cats, and fiction. I've been writing some micro-fiction, as well, and will link to some stories when they're published.
November 10, 2024 at 6:42 PM
... But I expect I'll also be posting about paradiplomacy, Romania, IR, movies, TV shows, cats, and fiction. I've been writing some micro-fiction, as well, and will link to some stories when they're published.