Challenges to Local-Global Relations in Federal Countries

International Relations has been a consolidated expression since the Peace of Westphalia in the 17th Century (Wilkinson, 2010). As a separate field of study, it was adopted for the first time when its Chair at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth was established in 1919 (Evans, 1998). Despite the fact that the expression has been and is still used in academia, politics and diplomacy worldwide to explain relations between nations, we know that the term “international” not only encompasses the nations themselves, as sovereignty countries, but also includes subnational entities, either public or private...