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Rola miast w czasach kryzysu multilateralizmu
The role of cities in times of crisis of multilateralism

Author(s): Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Michał Dahl
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: cities; multilateralism; multi-level governance; cities’ networks, covid-19 pandemic

Summary/Abstract: The article shows how cities are nowadays stepping into the role of nation states and how they efficiently cooperate with other cities on transnational level, not only bilaterally but also multilaterally. The authors point to the clear symptoms of the crisis of the multilateralism and against this background focus on the role of cities in saving and/or fixing the multilateral system and solving global prob-lems. An example of such activity is that of cities’ during the current covid-19 pan-demic. Finally, in the conclusions an attempt is made to answer the research ques-tion: can cities be regarded as a helping hand or a fix for the multilateral system? The research methods used are those of literature analysis and formal -legal analy-sis. The analysis made it possible to conclude that the answer to the research ques-tion is positive – cities may help to fix or even save the multilateral system.

  • Issue Year: 74/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-35
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Polish