...Laura Feliu; Francesc Serra This essay analyzes the diplomacy of the Parliament of Catalonia in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Spain, toward the Mediterranean region. In recent years, the academic literature has shown increased interest in the wide range of international activities...

... regime in the late 1970s, Spain has created seventeen self-governing regions, each with its own gov- ernment and parliament.5 More important is the fact that federalist solutions to the dilemmas posed by ethnic-based territorial cleavages have kept Spain unified and democratic. 2. This argument...

... percent of the vote (the largest share for any party) in the October 2002 elections, guaranteeing the party a spot in the country’s multiparty coalition government. In Norway, the Party of Progress, known for its anti-immigration views, won 25 seats in the 165-seat parliament in the September 2002...

... of international organizations in 4. Lorinc Redei, “The European Parliament as a Diplomatic Precedent Setter: The Case of Parlia- mentary Relations with Kosovo,” in The European Parliament and Its International Relations, ed. Stelios Stavridis and Daniela Irrera (London: Routledge, 2015), 279. 5. See...

... presidency (in 1989 and 1996) or that the 1992 Olympic Games would have been showcased in an ultramodern Barcelona, proud capital of a resurgent Catalonia. Nor would many have predicted in 1969, when Franco presented Juan Carlos to the Cortes as his designated successor...

... membership in the United Nations, would twice achieve the European Community presidency (in 1989 and 1996) or that the 1992 Olympic Games would have been showcased in an ultramodern Barcelona, proud capital of a resurgent Catalonia. Nor would many have predicted in 1969...

... presidency (in 1989 and 1996) or that the 1992 Olympic Games would have been showcased in an ultramodern Barcelona, proud capital of a resurgent Catalonia. Nor would many have predicted in 1969, when Franco presented Juan Carlos to the Cortes as his designated successor...

.... The constitution provided for two procedures by which a region may achieve autonomy, one fast, one slow. The fast route was applied to those regions—Galicia, the Basque provinces, and Catalonia—that had sought and achieved autonomy during the 1930s republic before the onset...

... is no longer a repressive totalitarian regime but an evolving democracy with an appealing monarch as head of state. Also, the Basque region enjoys extensive autonomous powers under Spain’s post-Franco 1978 constitution, including its own parliament, police force (the Ertzaintza), tax collection system...

... such as Catalonia, on the other. Little more than a decade later, the state remains the cornerstone of international structures and systems, projecting power, protecting culture, proscribing movement. In many ways, the state remains the most obvious manifestation of the power of place...

... chamber of the national parliament; the consent of this chamber is required for the approval of federal government laws, and it exerts shared control over executive com- 28. Stein Rokkan and Urwin Derek, The Politics of Territorial Identity: Studies in European Regionalism (London: SAGE, 1982...