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OverviewWhile the view that only states act as global actors is conventional, today significant diplomatic and cross-cultural activity is taking place in cities. Economic growth and fiscal experiments all occur in urban contexts. Cities are the center of the world economy, producing 85% of global GDP. 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. Pandemics spread in large urban conglomerates. Cities are sources of global pollution (80% of carbon emissions come from cities), 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. Cities 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. With regards to diplomacy in particular, we must take into account the existence of a complex diplomatic regime based on different overlapping levels—the urban and the state. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Raffaele MarchettiPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780472075034ISBN 10: 0472075039 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 30 October 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList 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 ReferencesReviews"Shortlisted: 2023 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award-- ""Center on Global Cities and The Pattis Family Foundation"" ""...the book contributes a well-rounded and contemporary collection of thought that helps scholars and practitioners keep pace ahead of the rapidly expanding and evolving sphere of activity by cities in the world affairs."" --European Review of International Studies--Benjamin Leffel ""European Review of International Studies"" ""Marchetti's book proves to be a solid theoretical analysis of city diplomacy, as well as inclusive of comparative and complementary concepts as rural and regional diplomacy."" --Journal of Public Diplomacy--Carla Cabrera Cuadrado ""Journal of Public Diplomacy""" ...the book contributes a well-rounded and contemporary collection of thought that helps scholars and practitioners keep pace ahead of the rapidly expanding and evolving sphere of activity by cities in the world affairs. --European Review of International Studies--Benjamin Leffel European Review of International Studies Author InformationRaffaele Marchetti is Deputy Rector for Internationalization and Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS in Rome. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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