Internationalization of Río Cuarto: cooperation for the sustainable local development

Abstract

Globalization has evidenced the existing interconnection around the world, which in turn implies that the problems that concern one will also have importance and need of resolution for another. It also makes it clear that we are all involved in the task of contributing to the solution of such problems that afflict our world in general. In this way, different actors, such as local governments, have become increasingly relevant at the international level. This shows that the solutions to the problems of the international agenda must be solved from a multilevel dynamic, since nowadays it is not only the States that have the capacity to generate changes. This final thesis elaborates an internationalization plan for the city of Río Cuarto centered on the axis of sustainable local development. The main problem is the dispersion of international actions due to the lack of a specialized body. For this purpose, a social project is developed for a year and a half, aimed at incorporating an International Relations Secretariat, making the city a member of ICLEI and providing legitimacy and continuity to the Secretariat in order to finally elaborate a subnational international policy.