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Global city challenges: debating a concept, improving the practice
Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an unavoidable fact of everyday world affairs. This volume gathers a forum that integrates the extensive set of disciplinary dimensions to which the interdisciplinary concept of the global city can help to tackle the policy challenges of today's metropolises. Its chapters are drawn from viewpoints including the cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political dimensions of global cities. Tasked with providing a rejoinder to the global city scholarship from each of these perspectives, the authors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing these stances to the concept of the 'global city'. They rely not solely on theory but also on sample case studies either drawn from long-lived global cities such as New York, Shanghai and London, or emerging metropolises like Dubai, Cape Town and Sydney.
Ain't about Politics? The Wicked Power-Geometry of Sydney's Greening Governance
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 381-399
ISSN: 1468-2427
Talking Groups Out of War: Aggregating and Disaggregating Strategies toward Secessionist Groups
In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 122-150
ISSN: 1468-0130
This essay sets up a comparison between two types of negotiating tactics: the first, aggregating strategies, aims at merging parties into the fewest number of sides to a conflict as possible, in order to diminish the number of war‐related divisions, and the second, disaggregating strategies, rests on the idea that "cross‐cutting cleavages" help moderate social conflict because they run against the construction of opposed identities. Much of the literature on intrastate conflict and rebellions supports the latter approach, but little comparative analysis on the social costs and benefits of the two types has, in reality, been carried out. By drawing lessons from the insurgencies in Aceh, Bougainville and, in part, the Solomon Islands, the article takes up an opportunity‐based spoilers' framework to analyze the strategies. It concludes that neither of the two can be identified as a "best method" if measured against sustainability and social impact, nor does one of them have a stronger effect on spoilers. In either case, the study underlines, there is an intrinsic value in long‐term peace processes as constituted by repeated negotiations and continuing interaction; likewise, there are webbing effects of war on peacebuilding scenarios as a process of multiplication of social cleavages occurs after conflict.
Mark Amen, Noah J. Toly, Patricia L. McCarney and Klaus Segbers (eds.), Cities and Global Governance: New Sites for International Relations. London: Ashgate, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-0893-2, 226 pp., £55.00
In: The Hague journal of diplomacy, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 240-242
ISSN: 1871-191X
Diplomats in Crisis
In: Diplomacy and statecraft, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 521-539
ISSN: 1557-301X
Ain't about Politics? The Wicked Power‐Geometry of Sydney's Greening Governance
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 381-399
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractThe globalization of Sydney and its rise to world city status tell us a profoundly political story that presents critical challenges both in terms of local development and long‐term sustainability. Green is at the centre of this imagineering, which situates environmental sustainability at the core of Sydney's competitive and innovative edge. Yet the Harbour City, while rising to worldwide fame, has also been progressively troubled by wicked challenges that question its increasingly entrepreneurial and largely unproblematized approach to urban governance. At present, the metropolis has tackled these challenges by means of ad hoc solutions and policy‐making processes that, on deeper analysis, reveal little coordination beyond an impetus for growth as the driver of collective action at the urban scale. Due to the lack of a clear metropolis‐wide authority and the multiscalar nature of urban governance, the city has turned too much towards tackling sustainability within its urban dimension as a source of global competitiveness, while social polarization questions are steadily advancing to the forefront. It is time, I argue, for a Greater Sydney Authority.RésuméLa mondialisation de Sydney et son ascension au rang de ville mondiale racontent une histoire profondément politique où apparaissent des problèmes cruciaux, à la fois en termes de développement local et de viabilitéà long terme. Défini comme pivot de cet 'ingéniomaginaire' ou imagineering, le thème 'vert' place la viabilité environnementale au cœur de l'avantage compétitif et novateur de Sydney. Pourtant, tout en bâtissant sa renommée mondiale, 'Harbour City' a peu à peu rencontré des 'problèmes pernicieux' qui menacent son approche de plus en plus entrepreneuriale de la gouvernance urbaine, approche dont la problématique est largement ignorée. La métropole a répondu à ces difficultés par des solutions ponctuelles et des processus de décision politique qui, une fois analysés en profondeur, révèlent une faible coordination hormis l'élan en faveur de la croissance comme moteur de l'action collective à l'échelon urbain. En l'absence d'autorité métropolitaine claire et à cause des multiples échelons de gouvernance, la ville s'est trop intéressée à la durabilité dans sa dimension urbaine en tant que source de compétitivité mondiale, alors que des problèmes de polarisation sociale prennent peu à peu le devant de la scène. Il est temps que soit instaurée une 'Autorité du Grand Sydney'.
Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Position, Space and Conflict Escalation
In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 358-360
ISSN: 1468-0130
Immoral authorities: crusades, jihād and just war rhetoric
In: Journal of global ethics, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 17-26
ISSN: 1744-9634
Global Cities: Gorillas in Our Midst
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 425-448
ISSN: 2163-3150
This article calls for greater attention to global cities in the study of world affairs so as to promote a more holistic reading of global governance as a multiscalar set of processes composed by overlapping spheres of authority. The article shows how international studies have been insufficiently sensitive to the strategic role of global cities and how they are capable of acting on the global stage by exerting network power. This sheds light on the multilayered governmentality of global governance from an urban perspective. Looking through a lens of global cities, it is argued, will enable theorists to connect macro processes to micro dynamics across a far wider spectrum of governance and political agencies.
Paradigm City: Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong. Janet Ng
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 63, S. 178-180
ISSN: 1835-8535
Global Cities as Actors: A Rejoinder to Calder and de Freytas
In: The SAIS review of international affairs / the Johns Hopkins University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Band 29, Heft 2, S. 175-178
ISSN: 1945-4724
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy ‐ by Christopher J. Coyne
In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 94-97
ISSN: 1468-0130
Wilson Victorious? Understanding Democracy Promotion in the Midst of a "Backlash"
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 461-480
ISSN: 2163-3150
Many authors have issued anxious warnings about a disturbing "backlash against democracy"—this in spite of the growing affirmation of democracy as an international standard against which other systems are measured. This article considers the role of democracy promotion, which is understood as activities aimed at assisting in consolidating, disseminating, and advocating democratic governance in this context. The theoretical framework in which the promotion debate occurs is highlighted in order to show how the concept of "democracy" is socially constructed and interpreted in different ways by the various promoters. The article examines the main targets of this activity (state structures and civil societies) and compares two major supporters of democracy (the European Union and the United States). On this basis, claims about a "democratic rollback" are challenged by reference to hybrid regimes that contrast the idea of democracy with that of civilization. The backlash is better understood as resistence to some of the methods of promotion and some promoters, rather than as being against democracy itself, and the article holds that the best way to promote good governance worldwide is through an oblique, cosmopolitan or European-style democracy that fosters the multiple and processual grounds on which democratic polities can flourish.