Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration

In contemporary European cities, border governance extends beyond territorial edges into the ordinary spaces, rhythms, and affects of urban life. This article examines how Afghan refugees in Paris encounter and negotiate the spatial, temporal, and affective dimensions of urban b/ordering. Drawing on eight months of et…

Bu makale, uluslararası öğrencilerin kamu diplomasisi bağlamında bir yumuşak güç unsuru olarak rolüne odaklanmaktadır. Bu çerçevede, Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi’nde (SCÜ) öğrenim gören uluslararası öğrencilerin Türkiye’ye yönelik algıları, deneyimleri ve iki ülke ilişkilerine katkı sağlama potansiyelleri analiz edil…

ABSTRACT This article reconceptualizes migrant smuggling along the Balkan Route through the lens of the smuggling assemblage, which captures the fluid, relational and context‐dependent nature of clandestine mobility. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork between 2020 and 2023 across six countries, including 85 s…

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This study examines how city diplomacy activities relate to different dimensions of urban resilience. Focusing on metropolitan municipalities in Türkiye, it analyses city diplomacy practices between 2014 and 2023 through content analysis and maps these activities onto different dimensions of urban resilience. The stud…

This introductory chapter situates paradiplomacy within the contemporary global context of democratic backsliding, authoritarian consolidation, and increasing centralization of political authority. It argues that while paradiplomacy has traditionally been associated with democratic decentralization and cooperative mul…

This chapter develops the conceptual framework guiding the book’s analysis of paradiplomacy in illiberal and authoritarian contexts. It begins by revisiting the concepts of illiberalism and authoritarianism, distinguishing between authoritarian practices that undermine accountability and illiberal practices that erode…

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This chapter analyzes Budapest’s paradiplomacy under Mayor Gergely Karácsony within the broader context of Hungary’s democratic backsliding under Viktor Orbán. It argues that Budapest has emerged as an “Island of Freedom,” using municipal diplomacy to counter the illiberal orientation of the central government. Despit…

This core chapter examines the case of İstanbul under Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu to analyze how paradiplomacy operates within an increasingly authoritarian and centralized political system. Focusing on the period following the 2019 and 2024 municipal elections, it demonstrates how opposition-led municipalities have used int…