Beyond city diplomacy: Urban diplomacy as a translation of active subsidiarity
Researchers like Benjamin Barber and Michele Acuto seem to echo, twenty years later, Sassen’s “Global Cities”: cities are becoming full-fledged actors in the international scene. The concept of “city diplomacy” recognises the “Foreign Policy of Cities,” developed by Simon Curtis. But what about urbanism and the cities themselves? Do cities just act local and think global or can they do the reverse – act global and think local?
This was my research question and the main goal of this guest blog for the Regional Studies Association