Mark Amen, Ph.D., Academic Director, Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions, Deputy Editor, Globalizations, University of South Florida, USA, Noah J. Toly, Ph.D.,Director of Urban Studies, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, Wheaton College, USA, Patricia L. McCarney, Ph.D., Director, Global Cities Program, CIS, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada and Klaus Segbers, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Freie Universität/ Free University of Berlin, Germany, Director, Center for Global Politics, and Director, Institute for East European Studies

'Anyone interested in the multiple ways globalizing cities are transforming the social fabric of the 21st century had better consult this outstanding collection of essays. Illuminating issues of state sovereignty and political authority, the contributors show how cities represent vital sites at the intersection of global governance and government that impact the everyday lives of billions of people.' Manfred B. Steger, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia 'Are cities rising and national states falling in a globalized world? The essays in this book address this timely question through a complementary set of case studies that demonstrate the varied mechanisms and ways by which cities and regions, or the sub-national, are critical to global governance of diplomacy, environmental politics, and other domains. The book challenges both urbanists and international relations scholars to meet each other across their disciplinary divide to cooperatively advance their increasingly intersected fields of inquiry.' Xiangming Chen, Trinity College, USA

• Introduction, Mark Amen, Noah Toly, Patricia McCarney, Klaus Segbers; Chapter 1 Sighting or Slighting Cities in International Relations, Mark Amen, Noah Toly, Patricia McCarney, Klaus Segbers; Chapter 2 The Emerging Global Landscape and New Role of Globalizing City Regions, Klaus Segbers; Chapter 3 Paradiplomacy in the Developing World: The Case of Brazil, Monica Salomon; Chapter 4, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly; Chapter 5 The Evolution of City Indicators: Challenges and Progress, Daniel Hoornweg; Chapter 6 Auditing Cities through Circles of Sustainability, Paul James, Andy Scerri; Chapter 7 Cities, the Environment, and Global Governance: A Political Ecological Perspective, Noah Toly; Chapter 8 Cities and Global Environmental NGOs: Emerging Transnational Urban Network?, Sofie Bouteligier; Chapter 9 The Global City Today: Advantages of Specialization and Costs of Financialization, Saskia Sassen; Chapter 10 World City Networks: Measurement, Social Organization, Global Governance, and Structural Change, Peter Taylor; Chapter 11 Concluding Remarks, Patricia McCarney, Klaus Segbers, Mark Amen, Noah Toly;