1st Edition
The Global City 2.0 From Strategic Site to Global Actor
1. Introduction Part 1 2. Global City Reflexivity and Actorization 3. An Interdisciplinary understanding of the Global City as Actor in World Politics 4. Global City Role Conceptions – A Theoretical Framework 5. Methodological Considerations Part 2 6. Introducing the Case – New York City as a Reflexive Global City
7. The New York City Role Conception in Counterterrorism 8. The New York City Role Conception in Climate Change 9. Conclusions and Contribution
Biography
Kristin Ljungkvist is a junior lecturer at the Department of Government and Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her current research interests include global cities and urban politics, security governance, globalization, gender and International Relations, European security and Critical Infrastructure Protection.
"This book is a major and original contribution to global city analysis. It is the best and most exhaustive treatment of global cities as political actors in a space that goes well beyond the national."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions
"A path-breaking study. Ljungkvist powerfully rethinks conceptions and implications of 'the global city'."—Jan Aart Scholte, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
