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While the view that only states act as global actors is conventional, significant diplomatic and cross-cultural activity is taking place in cities today. Economic growth and fiscal experiments all occur in urban contexts. Political reforms, social innovation, and protests and revolutions generate in cities. Criminal activities, terrorist actions, counterinsurgency, missile attacks (indeed, atomic bombs), and wars are centered in big cities. They are sources of global pollution as well as of environmental transformations such as urban gardening. Knowledge production, big data collection, and tech innovation all spur from intense interaction in cities. They are the meeting points between different cultures, religions, and identities.
These increasingly international cities develop twinning networks and projects, share information, sign cooperation agreements, contribute to the drafting of national and international policies, provide development aid, promote assistance to refugees, and do territorial marketing through decentralized city-city or district-district cooperation. Cities do what "municipalities" used to do many centuries ago: they cooperate but also enter into intense competitive dynamics. To understand current sociopolitical dynamics on a planetary level, we need to have two mental maps in mind: the state-centered map and the nonstate centered map. We must take into account the existence of a complex diplomatic regime based on different overlapping levels—the urban and the state.
Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Setting the stage: The relevance of cities in global affairs
PART I: Cities in global affairs
Chapter 1 Non-state actors in global politics
Global governance and the pluralization of international affairs
Transnational strategies and organizational forms of NSAs
Chapter 2 A world of cities
Demographic and economic trends
From world cities to urban archipelagos
PART II: City diplomacy
Chapter 3 Structural factors of city diplomacy
City diplomacy: Definition and trends
Cities in global governance
Legal dimension of city diplomacy: National trends
Legal dimension of city diplomacy: International trends
Actors, goals & drivers of city diplomacy
Chapter 4 Fields of operations of city diplomacy
Politics: global governance, twinning, networks, and mega events
Economy: Push & pull activities, and territorial marketing & city branding
Culture and environment
Security: from conflicts to covid
Human rights, migration and development
PART III: For the future
Concluding remarks on the cities in the XXI century
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