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Cities have become increasingly important to global politics, but have largely occupied a peripheral place in the academic study of International Relations (IR). This is a notable oversight for the discipline, although one which may be explained by IR's traditional state centrism, the subjugation of the city to the demands of the territorial state in the modern period, and a lack of conceptual and analytical frameworks that can allow scholars to include the impact of cities within their work. Presenting case-specific scholarship from leading experts in the field, each contribu.

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

Introduction: Empowering Cities; Simon Curtis/ 1. - 1. The Meaning of Global Cities: Rethinking the Relationship between Cities, States and International Order; Simon Curtis/ 16 . - 2. The Common Sense of Global City 'Actorness' in Contemporary World Politics; Kristin Ljungkvist/ 32 . - 3. A Networked Urban World: Empowering Cities to Tackle Environmental Challenges; Sofie Bouteligier/ 57 . - 4. An Urban Affair: How Mayors Shape Cities for World Politics; Michele Acuto/ 69 . - 5. Globalization, Governance and the Production of Urban Socio-Ecological Space; Nik Janos and Corina Mckendry/ 89 . - 6. The International Activities of Canadian Cities: Are Canadian Cities Challenging the Gate-Keeper Position of the Federal Executive in International Affairs?; Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly/ 107 . - 7. Municipal Bonds and Global Power; Mark Amen/ 132 . - 8. Johannesburg: Financial 'Gateway' to Africa; Elizabeth Cobbett/ 151