Global cities and public diplomacy

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Katarzyna Rybka-IwańskaHead of the Institutional Cooperation Unit, Department of Foreign Policy Strategy, Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs6h

#globalcities Today I am uploading a bonus to my lectures on public diplomacy. I did not deliver a separate presentation on global cities in a class room, but tried to cover this topic much more broadly that I initially intended - as the most important layer of substate diplomacy. Here I am trying to show that states and cities can cooperate on various levels, as well as they can compete. Cities can have their own say and - depending to a large (or some?) extent on the political and administrative system in a country - can participate in a global exchange of ideas, policies, goods, services and many more fields. The open question that remains in my head is: in what sense do the global cities benefit and suffer from globalisation? Are they engines of the process or just the addressee? The presentation is available here: https://lnkd.in/gZDqiwG I also recommend some further reading on global cities: Chicago Council on Global Affairs and everything they write on the topic: https://lnkd.in/gtcSHDF Economist Intelligence Unit and @Citibank report https://lnkd.in/gKN2b3Q PwC research on cities of opportunity https://lnkd.in/gnrMZzV ATKearney Global Cities Index https://lnkd.in/gV-4QSz photo taken by myself

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