City Diplomacy: Towards More Strategic Networking? Learning with WHO Healthy Cities
City Diplomacy: Towards More Strategic Networking? Learning with WHO Healthy Cities
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城市外交：走向更具战略性的网络？
DOI：
10.1111/1758-5899.12382
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发表时间：
2017
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影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
A. Tsouros
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作者：
M. Acuto;Mika Morissette;A. Tsouros
城市日益引起主要国际行为体的注意，现在经常在多边进程中发挥作用。然而，虽然有许多关于城市之间建立网络的研究，但很少有关于“城市网络”作为促进城市与城市以及城市与其他行为者合作的正式和制度化治理结构的研究。制度化的城市网络虽然并不新鲜，但在国际舞台上越来越多地出现，几乎无处不在，甚至可能过于普遍。现在是时候在城市网络选项之间进行“达尔文式”选择了吗？本文深入探讨了这种网络化的挑战，重点探讨了这种网络化外交和重叠可能对城市产生的影响。利用伦敦大学学院城市领导力实验室和世界卫生组织健康城市网络之间的研究合作，以及城市网络的全球数据集和定性焦点小组数据，我们考虑了这些治理结构的增长，它们的优势，但也与它们的快速增长相关的弱点，以及城市如何更有战略性地参与这种网络化的景观。简而言之，我们认为，城市网络的潜力必须与地方和国际层面的更具综合性和战略性的思维齐头并进。
Cities are increasingly capturing the attention of major international actors and now regularly feature in multilateral processes. Yet while there are many studies on networking among cities, there have been few studies of 'city networks' as formal and institutionalized governance structures facilitating city-to-city and city-to-other actors cooperation, or 'city diplomacy'. Institutionalized networks of cities, while not new, are becoming a growing presence on the international scene, almost omnipresent and perhaps even too common. Might it be time for a 'Darwinian' selection between city networking options? Diving deeper into this networked challenge, this essay focuses on the effects this networked diplomacy and overlap it might have on cities. Drawing on a research collaboration between the UCL City Leadership Laboratory at University College London and the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities Network and both a global dataset of city networks as well as qualitative focus group data, we consider the growth of these governance structures, their strengths, but also the weaknesses associated with their rapid growth, and how cities can engage with this networked landscape more strategically. In short, we argue that the potential of city networks must go hand-in-hand with more integrative and strategic thinking at both local and international levels.