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The Global City 2.0
Global cities all over the world are taking on new roles as they increasingly participate directly and independently in international affairs and global politics. So far, surprisingly few studies have analyzed the role of the Global City beyond its already well explicated role in the globalized economy. How is it that local governments of Global Cities claim international political authority and develop what appears to be their own independent foreign and security policies despite the fact that such policy areas have traditionally been considered to be the core function of nation-states and central governments? What does it mean to be and to govern the contemporary Global City? In this book ...
The Social City
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Brussels and Europe
Fifty years after the conclusion of the Treaties of Rome (25 March 1957) and the foundation of the European Economic Community, Brussels has become a political world city and international capital with global influence. The acta of the interuniversity and international colloquium, held in Brussels on 18 and 19 December 2006, present a general outline of the research results and 26 contributions, based on original research and divided into three parts. The first part focuses on Brussels' position in the 'world city network'. How has Brussels grown into the European and international 'capital' we know today? What exactly is its legal status as the European 'Capital'? Of course, other aspects s...
Asia in Washington
For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past several decades has been the United States. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system increasing in complexity by the day, the nation-state paradigm is not as dominant as it once was. In Asia in Washington, longtime Asia analyst Kent Calder examines the concept of “global city” in the context of international affairs. The term typically has been used in an economic context, refer...
Growth, Accumulation, Crisis
Constructs historical macroeconomic series for Sweden relying on modern methods of national accounting and investigates patterns of economic growth, accumulation and crisis in Sweden 1800-2000, based on constructed data series. Some data made available online (at a more disaggregated level) at http://www.historia.se.
The Agrarian Economy of Sixteenth-century Sweden
Johan Soderberg is Professor of Economic History at Stockholm University.
Stadens sopor
Under hela 1900-talet har Stockholms avfall sluthanterats med flera parallella metoder. Soporna har dumpats, använts som utfyllnad, eldats upp och tillvaratagits för försäljning. De olika arbetssätten har använts i olika hög grad under olika tider. Avfall har omväxlande betraktats som problem eller resurs för samhället. I Stadens sopor beskriver Ylva S. Sjöstrand hur metoderna för avfallshantering i Stockholm påverkats av avfallets sammansättning, den rådande praktiken samt de idéer kring teknik och miljö som dominerat under olika perioder. Författaren visar hur idé och praktik tillsammans skapat nya avfallsregimer för sophantering och hur metoder etableras och vidmakthålls – tills de slutligen blir inaktuella och ersätts av andra. Boken är en historisk genomlysning av sopbehandlingens ekonomi och utgör tänkvärd läsning då avfallsregimerna speglar samhällets värdenormer och hur synen på miljö, teknik och brukbarhet pendlat över tid.
The Symbolic Politics of European Integration
This book presents a cultural history of European integration. It revisits the European Community’s postwar origins through the lens of symbolic representation and so reveals a hitherto unknown side to Europe’s notorious technocrats. They were not simply administrators: they were skillful marketing experts, clever spin doctors, and talented stage directors. After all, what made the European Community stand out among the multitude of postwar European organizations? This book argues that it was not so much its vaunted supranationalism, nor its economic significance; it was its self-proclaimed role as torchbearer of European unity. Combining archival research with media analysis, The Symbol...
北京国际交往中心发展报告（2019）
本書順應全球化背景下國際大都市積極參與全球治理的趨勢，力求思考與回應北京城市國際化前沿熱點與焦點問題，深度把握當前北京國際交往中心建設的趨勢。本書側重于對現實問題的學術性研究，推介具有一定國際視野、立足於服務國家總體外交及城市國際化建設和可持續發展的問題研究，以及密切聯繫現實的城市國際化發展個案研究。
