Simon Curtis is associate professor in international relations at the University of Surrey and senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Global cities have played a central role in the era of neoliberal economic governance, but there are several signs that this role is under strain or perhaps even coming to an end.
How groundbreaking infrastructure projects will shape cities and geopolitics.
An exploration of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics.
From the pivotal impact cities had on global public health strategy during the height of the pandemic to today’s city-to-city partnerships that generate aid and shelter for refugees fleeing the war on Ukraine—subnational diplomacy creates real, tangible impacts on the geopolitical order.
