Cities and Global Governance ─ New Sites for International Relations

Amen (U. of South Florida, US), Toly (Wheaton College, US), McCarney (U. of Toronto, Canada), and Segbers (Free U. of Berlin, Germany) present a volume of ten papers connecting the analysis of cities (and other sub-national units) to the study of international relations and global studies. Opening chapters review theoretical concerns of understanding globalizing city regions, while the remaining chapters present case studies addressing the role of sub-national formal and informal political actors in global governance, with each focusing on one of three sub-themes: "the diverse ways in which cities and sub-national regions impact nation-state foreign policy; the various dimensions of urban imbrications in global environmental politics; or the multiple methods and standards used to measure the global role of cities." Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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 UniversitA?t/ Free University of Berlin, Germany, Director, Center for Global Politics, and Director, Institute for East European Studies