City Diplomacy and Non-State Actors in the Coming New Global Order
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Contemporary Politics and Society".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 355
Special Issue Editor
Interests: international political communication; public diplomacy; political leadership; public policies (media and free speech), global cities; public communication; journalism; innovation & entrepreneurship applied to journalism studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
City diplomacy is the international activity fostering a city’s ideas, values and beliefs. It includes economic promotion and also political and cultural activity to engage in the international arena. The realist approach considers that giving a political voice to cities may undermine unity of action and break national interest. In the age of globalization, the false analogy between cities and nations is a mistake. Cities are sovereign free spaces not interested in military or security agendas, as in realists’ terms. City diplomacy is flexible in formats and processes, opening avenues for citizen participation, including in businesses, universities, diasporas and social movements. However, there is always a transnational link between diplomatic action and public diplomacy. Political entry points are linked to climate change policies, clean energies policies and human mobility, and data politics (surveillance, platforms) or the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its global goals (SDGs) appears at the core. These aspects may create conflicts of interest or agency problems, as a city’s international policy differs from national foreign policy or lacks coordination among institutions.
Dr. Juan Luis Manfredi Sanchez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- global cities
- diplomacy
- political leadership
- climate change
- international order
- agency problem
