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Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Assemblage Thinking and International Relations -- Part 1 Theories of Assemblage -- 2 The Carpenter and the Bricoleur -- 3 Tracing Global Assemblages, Bringing Bourdieu to the Field -- 4 Assemblages and the Conduct of Inquiry -- Part 2 Ontologies of Assemblage -- 5 Cognitive Assemblages and the Production of Knowled -- 6 Global Assemblages and Structural Models of International Relations -- 7 Thinking Assemblages Methodologically: Some Rules of Thumb -- Part 3 Methods of Assemblage -- 8 Energizing the International -- 9 Visual Assemblages: From Causality to Conditions of Possibility -- Part 4 Materialities of Assemblage -- 10 Security in Action: How John Dewey Can Help Us Follow the Production of Security Assemblages -- 11 Welcome to the Machine: Rethinking Technology through Assemblage Theory -- Part 5 Politics of Assemblage -- 12 The Onto-Politics of Assemblage -- 13 Agencement and Traces: A Politics of Ephemeral Theorizing -- 14 The Assemblage and the Intellectual-as-Hero -- Conclusions: Assemblage Theory and Its Future -- References -- Index

Although the long term impact of Covid-19 on the world's cities cannot yet be known, what we can see is how the pandemic is interacting with existing trends and forces that are shaping both cities and the wider international system of which they are a part. Covid-19 will not transform cities permanently on its own. Instead, its short-term effects will interact with deep-lying structural transformative trends that are already playing themselves out in our cities. This article examines this intersection, and suggests the pandemic also represents an opportunity for different political actors to struggle to shape the future of cities.

AbstractThe global city has been both a product and driver of contemporary globalization. But today the global city is under threat from at least two directions. Firstly, despite their astonishing economic growth over the last four decades, they have become deeply divided and polarized in ways that threaten the integrity of the urban fabric. The second source of threat comes from the weakening of liberal world order. This article argues that global cities are at a point of crisis, because they embody an unstable form of global market society. In order to survive in a 'global' form, they will need to evolve by repurposing some of the political, economic and governance capacities that they have been developing over the last four decades. The article asks: what capacities and capabilities have global cities generated, and how might they be reoriented in the creation of alternative global city futures?

International society, so long the resolution to problems of collective political order, now appears to be failing in its capacity to deal with transnational challenges such as climate change, global security and financial instability. Indeed, the structure of international society itself has become a significant obstacle to such pressing issues of global governance. One striking response has been the reemergence of cities as important actors on the international stage. This article will show how these two issues are intrinsically linked. Cities have taken on new governance roles in the gaps left by hamstrung nation-states, and their contribution to an emerging global governance architecture will be a significant feature of the international relations of the 21st century. But do the new governance activities of cities represent a failure on the part of states, as some scholars have argued? Or are they a part of an emerging form of global order, in which the relationship between states, cities and other actors is being recalibrated? This article argues that the remarkable renaissance of cities in recent decades has been a result of a shift in the structure of international society, and assesses the causal drivers of this shift. It goes on to draw out some of the implications of the recalibration of the relationship between the city and the state for how we understand the emerging form of global order.