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Cities in Global Governance

From multilateralism to multistakeholderism?

Agustí Fernández de Losada and Marta Galceran-Vercher (Eds.)

Cities in Global Governance

From multilateralism to multistakeholderism?

Agustí Fernández de Losada and Marta Galceran-Vercher (Eds.) 5 9 13 17

International

agreements have an increasingly direct impact on local realities and determine many of the policies promoted by city governments.

Having an influence

in these agreements cannot and should not be seen as an option but as part of the responsibility of local leaders.

Although some

progress has been made, there is still a long way to go before the EU places urban challenges at the heart of its political agenda.

Cities approach to

global agendas has been accompanied by a most remarkable effort to occupy a seat at the

UN negotiating table.

Over the years,

urban issues have gained relevance in international regulations, cities have been acknowledged and are consulted, but they are still a long way from participating in decision-making processes.

Cities are still focusing

more on “being part" and placing items on the agenda than on improving the quality of texts that are approved at the international level by drawing on their own priorities and realities to inform the decisions taken.

The multi-stakeholder

approach raises no small number of questions that require careful attention. GLOBAL CITIES, WORLD ORDER AND POST-PANDEMIC FUTURES 27

COVID-19 will not

transform cities permanently on its own. Instead, its short-term effects will interact with deep-lying structural transformative trends that are already playing themselves out in our cities, and in the wider international system in which cities are embedded.

A divide has begun

to emerge between global cities and the heartlands of the territorial nation-states in which they formed.

Cities and their

leadership are able to exercise a new form of power on the world stage: the ability to convene networks of various actors.

The decline of US

hegemony has been mirrored by the rise of Chinese power and influence in the last decade. As

China exerts more

influence and seeks to reshape the nature of international society, we should expect this to be reflected in the nature of urban space.

The post-pandemic

future for global cities faces two forks in the road. The first is a choice between a cosmopolitan, interconnected internationalism and an international system of renewed state control.

The second is between

an increasingly crisis- wracked form of capitalist city. 37

Cities have been

improving both their capacity to address global challenges and their knowledge of the political and economic forces that create such challenges.

While always keeping

an eye on urban areas, transnational city- focused organisations have also oriented their activities and policies around key international agreements.

While scholars,

commentators and advocates of global urban politics have maintained a keen focus on international organisations and the

UN in particular, the

coveted table has been growing ever shakier before their eyes.

Since its adoption

and rollout to much fanfare in 2015 and 2016, its most important component parts have been under pressure from nationalist diplomats and leaders and its most visible goals have been rendered either significantly more difficult to achieve or in need of reconsideration.

But hewing less closely

to the agenda, using the goals as guides rather than metrics, or choosing to prioritise a few goals is a privilege that is more easily exercised by stakeholders, including local governments. 45
1 1.

“Subjecthood" or

There are two types

of engagement by cities with global governance: (a) seeking a seat in traditionally state-centric processes; and (b) creating city- centric fora to engage collectively with global governance.

If cities are seeking

formal recognition of their role in international law, they are on the right path, both in seeking a seat at the table with states and in organising in their own fora. of the locality

The International Court

of Justice showed in

1948 that if a new

actor in international law had functions which required a degree of autonomy, and this was accepted by other actors such as states, a degree of functional legal personality

A legal pluralist

perspective on international law argues that law"s power lies not only in coercion but persuasion, and that actors big and small, even unrecognised, can influence what others consider

“good" for themselves

and the international community.

From a pluralist

perspective, cities are active components of the global system of norm-generating communities advocating and negotiating their understandings of international law.

Whether formal law

“sees" these processes

or not, cities" influence (big or small) informs actors and norms in the international system.

THE ROLE OF CITIES IN A REFORMED UN: TOWARDS THE INSTITUTIONALISATION OF THE WORLD ASSEMBLY OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS

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Cities' impact on

global discussions remains more symbolic than real. In most cases, they are invited to participate as mere observers or implementers of the major agreements but have little effective involvement in decision-making and lack the capacity to influence the agenda.

Associations of local

governments have been calling for permanent observer status for decades.

This would allow

cities" voices to be heard in the General

Assembly"s sessions and

resolutions.

Efforts to establish a

structural participation mechanism for cities within the UN system have also been hindered by the question of the representativity and accountability of the associations claiming to speak on behalf of local governments.

Cities and their

networks would be much more efficient in their advocacy efforts if they addressed their messages as a unified constituency.

Hence, the GTF was

established in 2013.

Institutionalising the

WALRG would require

rethinking its current governance scheme, especially its level of representativity and the role played by city networks.

Perhaps it is time to

decouple the debate on the role of cities in global governance from the debate on how to improve their recognition 65

After almost 30

years of operation, the evaluations of the CoR"s work are conflicting and fluctuating.

Nonetheless, it is

worth remembering that the CoR remains the only supranational body that guarantees cities and regions have access to - and a degree of supervisory power over - the legislative process in such a complex political structure as the EU.

Historically, the

traditional prudence regarding urban matters and the

“territorial blindness"

of the EU have limited the formal rights of LRAs and their organisations to participate in supranational decision- making.

Pioneering

contributions on MLG revealed that the presence of LRAs in EU policymaking was a novel phenomenon of a potentially innovative nature in the context of EU policy, polity and politics.

Whether the CoR

can be considered the Union"s third representative chamber or not is still up for debate.

Nonetheless, given

the representative and political mandate of its members, to consider the CoR a merely technical, consultative assemblyquotesdbs_dbs43.pdfusesText_43

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