Paradyplomacja regionalna w obszarze południowego Bałtyku na przykładzie stosunków transgranicznych Województwa Zachodniopomorskiego
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2010
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu
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Regional Paradiplomacy in the South Baltic Sea Territory Based on the Example of Transborder Relations of the Western Pomeranian Province
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Individual and group transborder cooperation of the Western Pomeranian Province
with other South Baltic regions is in line with a pan-European trend of regional authorities becoming independent and participating in international relations as independent
entities. This ‘paradiplomacy’ is undoubtedly a factor that contributes to the
relativization of the state as a traditional arena of political activity. Simultaneously, as
the subsidiarity principle, which is the foundation of EU regional policy, is becoming
increasingly popular, it seems unavoidable and irreversible that regional structures will
be vested with increasing powers in the realm of foreign policy (that used to be reserved for national organs exclusively). In this context the collaboration of the Western
Pomeranian Province with other South Baltic regions is only at the beginning of a potential process to form its own ‘paradiplomacy’ as it remains constricted in the formula
of state limitation and supervision. Therefore, at present it is unfeasible for Polish regional authorities, including the self-government of Western Pomerania, to conduct independent ‘paradiplomacy.’
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Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne,2010, nr 1,s. 37-56.