An Explanatory Framework for the Study of Federated States as Foreign-policy Actors

Abstract

Abstract As a result of a crisis at the level of the nation-state’s systemic process and foreign-policy performance, as well as a process of reacting to and attempting to remedy this crisis, the ‘many voices’ phenomenon in foreign policy (called here ‘segmentation’) appears most often within advanced industrial federations in which individual federal governments and federated states (in this study often called ‘federated units’) compete for foreign-policy roles. It is, moreover, more pronounced in societies such as Canada, where the ‘nation-building process’ is unfinished and dejure and defacto decentralization allows for a more active provincial, regional, and even municipal role in external relations.

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