Cities Within Multilevel Global Governance: A Theoretical Approximation

The performance of cities as an efficient and influential political force in multilevel global governance is becoming more and more relevant in this millennia; for example, in the provision of solutions to local problems that can be tailored globally, and vice-a-versa. This is one of the manifestations of the potential of cities within global governance, and from there the opportune approach of an agenda of investigation of the context of the city in relation to its role in the global context beyond the Paradiplomacy and the Global City approaches. That in turn implies an identification and analysis of categories of key investigation such as: image, agency, and identity, with the objective to generate not only points of debate, but more importantly a theoretical proposal that later supports the approach of empirical work that is necessary to set and confirm the budgets of the city within the context of multilevel global governance.