Raffaele Marchetti is Deputy Rector for Internationalization and Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS in Rome.

A comprehensive and compelling treatment of the role of cities and their growing importance on the world stage. The book captures with impressive clarity the many dimensions of city diplomacy, its history, and how it is shaping bilateral and multilateral governance across a range of policy areas and economic relations. A must-read.

• List of tablesAcknowledgmentsSetting the stage: The relevance of cities in global affairsPART I: Cities in global affairsChapter 1 Non-state actors in global politicsGlobal governance and the pluralization of international affairsTransnational strategies and organizational forms of NSAsChapter 2 A world of citiesDemographic and economic trendsFrom world cities to urban archipelagosPART II: City diplomacyChapter 3 Structural factors of city diplomacyCity diplomacy: Definition and trendsCities in global governanceLegal dimension of city diplomacy: National trendsLegal dimension of city diplomacy: International trendsActors, goals & drivers of city diplomacyChapter 4 Fields of operations of city diplomacyPolitics: global governance, twinning, networks, and mega eventsEconomy: Push & pull activities, and territorial marketing & city brandingCulture and environmentSecurity: from conflicts to covidHuman rights, migration and developmentPART III: For the futureConcluding remarks on the cities in the XXI centuryReferences

Raffaele Marchetti is Deputy Rector for Internationalization and Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS in Rome.

A comprehensive and compelling treatment of the role of cities and their growing importance on the world stage. The book captures with impressive clarity the many dimensions of city diplomacy, its history, and how it is shaping bilateral and multilateral governance across a range of policy areas and economic relations. A must-read.

• List of tablesAcknowledgmentsSetting the stage: The relevance of cities in global affairsPART I: Cities in global affairsChapter 1 Non-state actors in global politicsGlobal governance and the pluralization of international affairsTransnational strategies and organizational forms of NSAsChapter 2 A world of citiesDemographic and economic trendsFrom world cities to urban archipelagosPART II: City diplomacyChapter 3 Structural factors of city diplomacyCity diplomacy: Definition and trendsCities in global governanceLegal dimension of city diplomacy: National trendsLegal dimension of city diplomacy: International trendsActors, goals & drivers of city diplomacyChapter 4 Fields of operations of city diplomacyPolitics: global governance, twinning, networks, and mega eventsEconomy: Push & pull activities, and territorial marketing & city brandingCulture and environmentSecurity: from conflicts to covidHuman rights, migration and developmentPART III: For the futureConcluding remarks on the cities in the XXI centuryReferences

Raffaele Marchetti is Deputy Rector for Internationalization and Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS in Rome.

A comprehensive and compelling treatment of the role of cities and their growing importance on the world stage. The book captures with impressive clarity the many dimensions of city diplomacy, its history, and how it is shaping bilateral and multilateral governance across a range of policy areas and economic relations. A must-read.

• List of tablesAcknowledgmentsSetting the stage: The relevance of cities in global affairsPART I: Cities in global affairsChapter 1 Non-state actors in global politicsGlobal governance and the pluralization of international affairsTransnational strategies and organizational forms of NSAsChapter 2 A world of citiesDemographic and economic trendsFrom world cities to urban archipelagosPART II: City diplomacyChapter 3 Structural factors of city diplomacyCity diplomacy: Definition and trendsCities in global governanceLegal dimension of city diplomacy: National trendsLegal dimension of city diplomacy: International trendsActors, goals & drivers of city diplomacyChapter 4 Fields of operations of city diplomacyPolitics: global governance, twinning, networks, and mega eventsEconomy: Push & pull activities, and territorial marketing & city brandingCulture and environmentSecurity: from conflicts to covidHuman rights, migration and developmentPART III: For the futureConcluding remarks on the cities in the XXI centuryReferences