Subnational State Actors and their Roles in Regional Governance

All spending is not equal: European Union public spending, policy feedback and citizens’ support for the EU

“…The Common Market of the South (Mercosur) has established a Fund for the Structural Convergence of Mercosur in 2006, which is similar to the ESIF in terms of allocation process and funding objectives (cf. Medeiros ). Our findings on the effects of spending policies on public support for the EU may serve as a catalyst advancing the comparative research agenda on the sources of public support for regional and international institutions.…”

Building Sustainable Couples in International Relations

“…Nevertheless, in spite of this ambivalence, they indisputably permitted the decentralization of the Latin American diplomatic system. The combination of all of these operating forces has, thus, resulted in the pluralization of diplomacy, first in Argentina, Chile and Brazil, and later in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, while a growing body of literature has begun to discuss this reality (see Tapia, 2003;Wanderley and Vigevani, 2005;Gonzalez, 2006;Iglesias, 2008;Medeiros, 2008;Zaraoui, 2009;Maira, 2010).…”

“…But, in spite of its demonstrative effects, and from the analytical perspective that this chapter adopts, it can be said that substate governments, although increasingly relevant actors in the bilateral relationship between Argentina and Brazil, were never a central piece in their respective bilateral diplomatic design. Their relevance, in short, can be better grasped in terms of their contribution to decentralized cooperation in wider integration schemes, such as Mercosur or the Andean Community (Medeiros, 2008;Rhi-Sausi and Conato, 2009). …”