City networks and diplomacy

Resumo

The international character of cities is intrinsic, giving relevance to their geopolitical role in the global arena. The recent creation and relevance of an interconnected space of cities that may or may not be influenced by nation-states has fostered research on international relations carried out by cities. The purpose of this article is to present the city diplomacy beyond western diplomacy. We seek to conceptualize and categorize city diplomacy, its strategies, and agents since its inception. Focusing on Brazil, we seek to understand how the global South has engaged in this field. Considering that the territory of cities is central to global production and accumulation strategies, city diplomacy sometimes finds it self in the midst of contradictions, in a field of forces in which large corporations, nation-states, multilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and citizens compete for spaces of power and visions of the city and the world. This scenario leads to the formation of three types of networks in which cities take part: i) project; ii) corporate; and iii) city. Brazilian cities have positioned themselves internationally as consumers of the world, much more than producers, however other cities in the global South seek to insert themselves as producers of global solutions based on the valuation of local strategies. In general, the field of study on city diplomacy requires theoretical and methodological advances to better understand this complex phenomenon.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2024

Instituição

Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea)

Fonte

Repositório do Ipea

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

DOI

10.38116/bepi37art1

Identificador

oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/13240

Licença

Licença Comum

Abrangência

Brasil

Temas

Planejamento Urbano

Palavras-chave

CidadesDiplomacia das cidadesRedes de cidadesSul globalNeoliberalismoSolidariedade organizacional