Manuel Duran, Ph.D (2014), University of Antwerp, is scientific attaché at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History in Brussels. He has published on diplomatic history and paradiplomacy, including Mediterranean Paradiplomacies. The Dynamics of Diplomatic Reterritorialization (Brill, 2015).

• IntroductionSketching the PuzzleConceptualizing ParadiplomacyDer Derian’s Turn - Mediating AlienationThe Turn in Paradiplomacy: A Dynamics of SeparationThe Separation Dynamics: Degrees or Instances of Separation1. Separating differencesSites of paradiplomatic opposition: Political Antagonism – NationalismCounter- and Pseudo-embassiesMimicry – Emulating the State2. Engaging CommonalitiesSites of Paradiplomatic Similarities:Peace Building – Peace PoliticsDevelopment CooperationConclusion and Possible ImplicationsReferences

Manuel Duran, Ph.D (2014), University of Antwerp, is scientific attaché at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History in Brussels. He has published on diplomatic history and paradiplomacy, including Mediterranean Paradiplomacies. The Dynamics of Diplomatic Reterritorialization (Brill, 2015).

• IntroductionSketching the PuzzleConceptualizing ParadiplomacyDer Derian’s Turn - Mediating AlienationThe Turn in Paradiplomacy: A Dynamics of SeparationThe Separation Dynamics: Degrees or Instances of Separation1. Separating differencesSites of paradiplomatic opposition: Political Antagonism – NationalismCounter- and Pseudo-embassiesMimicry – Emulating the State2. Engaging CommonalitiesSites of Paradiplomatic Similarities:Peace Building – Peace PoliticsDevelopment CooperationConclusion and Possible ImplicationsReferences

Manuel Duran, Ph.D (2014), University of Antwerp, is scientific attaché at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History in Brussels. He has published on diplomatic history and paradiplomacy, including Mediterranean Paradiplomacies. The Dynamics of Diplomatic Reterritorialization (Brill, 2015).

• IntroductionSketching the PuzzleConceptualizing ParadiplomacyDer Derian’s Turn - Mediating AlienationThe Turn in Paradiplomacy: A Dynamics of SeparationThe Separation Dynamics: Degrees or Instances of Separation1. Separating differencesSites of paradiplomatic opposition: Political Antagonism – NationalismCounter- and Pseudo-embassiesMimicry – Emulating the State2. Engaging CommonalitiesSites of Paradiplomatic Similarities:Peace Building – Peace PoliticsDevelopment CooperationConclusion and Possible ImplicationsReferences