1st Edition
Sub-National Actors in Authoritarian and Illiberal Systems Reframing Paradiplomacy
Chapter 1: Introduction
Case Selection and Outline of the Book
Chapter 2: Paradiplomacy in Illiberal and Authoritarian Realms: A Conceptual Framework
Chapter 3: The Mayor of İstanbul and the Pursuit of Legitimacy: Paradiplomacy under Competitive-Disharmony in an Authoritarian Context
Paradiplomacy under Pressure: İstanbul, Competitive Disharmony, and the Rise of İmamoğlu
The Institutional Landscape of Local Governance in Turkey: Regulations and Limitations
Economic Paradiplomacy: External Loans and Infrastructure
Political Paradiplomacy: Global Platforms and Legitimacy
Network Building: Friends and Foes in Paradiplomacy
Chapter 4: An “Island of Freedom” against Orban’s illiberalism: Budapest’s Paradiplomacy
Hungary’s Authoritarian Reconfiguration Under Viktor Orbán
Decentralization in Hungary: Between Institutional Autonomy and Recentralizing Currents
The Mayor of Dissent: Introducing Gergely Karacsony
The “Parallel”: Karácsony’s Municipal Resistance to Orbán’s Foreign Policy
The “Disharmony”: Establishing a counter-narrative for Hungary abroad
Chapter 5: Paradiplomacy as a Quest for Recognition: Taiwan’s Sub-State Diplomacy under Authoritarian Constraints
Who is who?: Taiwan’s Status and the One China Dilemma
Paradiplomacy as Political Recognition: Taiwan’s Sub-State Diplomatic Acts
Chapter 6: Cities as Instruments of the State: Cooperative-Coordinated Paradiplomacy in Iran
Dynamics of Iranian local governance
Urban Diplomacy Under Constraint: Patterns of Engagement in Iranian Cities and Provinces
Chapter 7: “Make America Great Again” from Florida: Supporting an Illiberal Movement Through State Diplomacy?
Explaining MAGA as an illiberal movement
Paradiplomacy in the US and “bypassing paradiplomacy”
Florida in Action: Sustaining MAGA During Trump’s Interregnum
Chapter 8: Paradiplomacy Amidst Social Unrest: Antonio Ledezma, Caracas, and the Organization of American States
An Overview on Venezuela's Politics
Antonio Ledezma’s Mayoral Tenure: Paradiplomacy as Resistance
Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks
Biography
Ahmet Cemal Ertürk is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Kultur University. His research focuses on European Union (EU) and Turkish transport policies, EU-Turkey relations, and paradiplomacy.
Nur Sinem Kourou is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Kultur University. Her research focuses on the relationship between gender and politics, anti-gender movements, and women’s political participation in Turkey.
