Foreign capital and US states’ contested strategies of internationalisation
A Constructivist Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6050264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Czeslaw Tubilewicz (0000-0002-3087-2788, Politics and International Relations, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 386-407 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9775 • E-ISSN: 1469-3631 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569775.2021.2001156 |
| OpenAlex | W3213325816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 46 |
The article presents a Constructivist framework for subnational diplomacy (aka paradiplomacy), critiquing the Neoliberal assumptions regarding US states' search for foreign capital as driven by ‘objective' market forces, free of intra-subnational conflicts and geopolitical implications. Using Formosa Plastics' investment projects in Texas and Louisiana as case studies, it argues that paradiplomatic agency—rather than restricted to subnational executives—is located across a range of state and non-state subnational actors, who form intra-subnational, national and international coalitions when advancing or challenging US states' economic internationalization. Their contests over the purpose of international action and the locus of authority that speaks for subnational communities in the global marketplace reflect their intersubjective constructions of reality. Such constructions not only provide subnational actors with an understanding of themselves and their interests, but also delineate the boundaries of what is permissible and necessary, rendering certain internationalization strategies as ‘obvious’, while precluding others
Economic system · Economics · Foreign policy · Geopolitics · International trade · Internationalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · European Union Policy and Governance · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Public Administration
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The construction of social reality
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Our ‘good neighbor’ Formosa Plastics
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Subnational Foreign Policy Actors
The Growing Role of States in U.S. Foreign Policy
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The international competence of us states and their local governments
Regions and international affairs
Making sense of paradiplomacy? An intertextual enquiry about a concept in search of a definition
Looking Beyond the National Level
State and Local Governments in the International Arena
Small states in Europe
Foreign Policy as Social Construction
The social construction of reality
Multi-Layered Diplomacy in a Global State
Transgovernmental Relations and International Organizations
Patterned Chaos in Global Life
Anarchy is what states make of it
Power and Interdependencerevisited
Seizing the Middle Ground
Constructing National Interests
A Reconstruction of Constructivism in International Relations
The Internationalisation of Regions
Subnational Activity and Foreign Economic Policy Making in Canada and the United States
Regional Governments and International Affairs
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |