As geopolitical uncertainties and global challenges intensify, subnational actors have increasingly emerged as essential players in responding to these crises. This webinar, held in cooperation with the Paradiplomacy Scholars Forum, explores how cities and regions manage diplomacy under pressure, examining the mechanisms through which these entities function as agile and adaptive infrastructures of governance across …

The Academy of International Affairs NRW, in cooperation with the Paradiplomacy Scholars Forum, will host an online seminar on Brazilian paradiplomacy. The event brings together leading scholars to examine the historical development, legal-institutional consolidation and contemporary challenges of subnational international action in Brazil. The discussion will address federal dynamics, regional asymmetries and political crisis contexts, …

In its fourth year, the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine remains one of the central security challenges of our time. Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Russia has fundamentally changed the starting position for possible negotiations on a ceasefire or peace agreement. Key Russian demands, such as territorial concessions and the exclusion of a Ukrainian NATO …

The EU’s new Green Deal has raised several research questions and generated vast expectations on the way Europe seeks to change towards a more sustainable path, both at an international and regional level.