PARADIPLOMACY AS A PATH TO PLURIVERSE

EXAMINATION OF PROPOSALS BY SUBNATIONAL NETWORKS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE MODERN STRUCTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Abstract

Currently, international relations remain founded on imperiality and coloniality, denoting normative and institutional hegemony and homogenization from the global North. An example can be seen in the state representation model itself, centered on the Executive Power, which ignores the capacity of other state units and non-state actors to equally participate at the international level. Therefore, parting from the third world approaches to international law, paradiplomacy is considered as a possible emancipatory mechanism, since subnational entities, when representing living and plural organisms such as cities and regions, seem to unveil demands arising from silenced voices, bringing proposals to change state and international decision-making models. In view of this, this text aims to verify whether paradiplomacy could constitute a mechanism capable of promoting a pluriverse. It is intended, therefore, to investigate, through a case study, exploratory methodology and documentary and bibliographic research techniques, whether proposals by subnational networks, which contest the structure of the international order, present conditions to change it.