Cities, Geopolitics, and the International Legal Order
Earlier this year we hostedCities, Geopolitics, and the International Order, our first academic workshop of 2019-20, exploring how globalization has produced tensions between economic space and governance space, leading to new forms of global politics and relationship building, along with questions around authorities and sovereignty.
This workshop kicked off the Great Powers and Urbanization Project, or GPUP, a collaboration of global leaders in international and urban affairs. Members of the project include Perry World House, the University of Melbourne’s Connected Cities Lab, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the Argentine Council for International Relations (Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales). GPUP looks at how cities are taking on an increasingly prominent role on the world stage – pursuing their own policy priorities, developing their own foreign relations strategies, and building new peer networks to advocate for the issues that matter to them, sometimes contradicting or clashing with their national governments in the process.