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An examination of how US states and governors connect to American foreign relations, this book argues that these subnational actors should be analyzed in international relations scholarship. Samuel Lucas McMillan is an assistant professor of Political Science at Lander University. His research has appeared in the journals Foreign Policy Analysis and International Interactions. A former Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to England, he serves as president of the South Carolina Political Science Association.

Offering a general view of the development of subnational foreign action around the world, this work covers topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive consistution of international regimes such as the EU, NAFTA and APEC

Until now there has been relatively little systematic analysis of the foreign relations of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Based on interviews with senior officials of the KRG, this article places this activity within the conceptual framework of paradiplomacy. It argues that, in the framework of regional geopolitics and economic benefits for the Kurdistan Region from its place in Iraq, the practice of this paradiplomacy does not indicate an intention to secede from Iraq.