Global cities are the best candidates to form novel transnational political assemblages that can scale up to the level of global challenges.
Global cities are products of a liberal world order that is under threat from the rise of populist nationalism, protectionism, and growing authoritarianism.
The question of whether global cities should have their own foreign policy has been hotly debated, but recent developments have changed the calculus.
Simon Curtis examines the restructuring of the global economy and how it is transforming the world's major cities.
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