Relying on a research of the ‘urban links’ between these cities and wider spheres of governance, and on practical examples of this nexus as it unfolds in the global politics of sustainability of the Climate Leadership Group (or ‘C40’). This project sought to redress this perceptual flaw.

Besides, certain cities in particular- those popularly known as “ global cities”- have a pivotal role in articulating global, international and transnational processes through the situated urban practices we all partake in-a dimension hitherto overlooked in the field of international studies. Yet, in a world where more than half of humanity lives in urban settlements, the role of cities in defining the parameters of everyday life is an undeniable influence which cannot be regarded as outside of the purview of international affairs.

While a growing body of literature is nowadays concerned with explaining the dynamic changes of the international order, almost no political theorization has taken into account the city as an element of these revolutions.

London relations with global cities