This article situates the international activities of subnational governments in India within the broader political economy of federalism. It argues that the nature and the extent of subnational states' engagements in international affairs are a function of the partisan political relationship...

Rising powers are fundamentally shifting the relations of power in the global economic and political landscape. International political theory, however, has so far failed to evaluate this nascent multipolarity. This article fills this lacuna by synthesizing empirical and normative modes of...