New power configurations: City mobilization and policy change

Abstract

This article describes the implications of cities rising as international actors in the field of migration policy with a look at how they mobilize in national and inter‐regional contexts. What is notable about the current period are new configurations of power between cities that are more sophisticated than the standard best practice sharing of traditional inter‐city networks. The author has direct insights into the two case studies presented, and the information gathered derives in large measure from the author's conversations, relationships, and role in the activities described. The article presents assumptions on how these new configurations of power will influence global cooperation, pointing towards a redesign of governance in which local knowledge informs national policy, local action drives national response, and local needs trigger global cooperation.

Scaling migration network governance? City networks and civil society in multilevel policymaking dynamics

“…In other words, CNs are thought of as organizations articulating cities' interests in finding pragmatic and effective solutions to locally salient migration-related challenges (Penninx, 2015;Stürner & Bendel, 2019). However, although various studies certainly document the ambition of cities to influence high level policies and have a seat in key decision-making venues (for a review see Thouez, 2022), this does not necessarily reflect their willingness to promote multilevel governance, which, as scholars emphasize, implies establishing collaborative relations on both the vertical/intergovernmental and the horizontal/state-society dimensions of policymaking processes at the same time (Alcantara et al, 2016;Bache & Flinders, 2004;Hooghe & Marks, 2001;Piattoni, 2010). The question then arises of whether and to what extent migration CNs effectively engage in relations with societal actors that are then scaled up in policymaking processes taking place at the national and/or supranational levels.…”

“…Glorius & Doomernik, 2020; Williamson, 2018). Investigating this horizontal state–society dimension is all the more important considering that CNs are often regarded by scholars as laboratories for broadening innovative approaches to globalization (Agranoff, 2018, p. 214) and to establish a ‘new multilevel governance of migration’ (Penninx, 2015; see also Thouez 2022 in this Special Issue). In other words, the puzzle is that of understanding whether and to what extent CNs can contribute to scaling up network governance beyond local jurisdictions (Ansell & Torfing, 2015) and favour the emergence of multilevel governance arrangements on highly politicized issues like migration (Scholten et al., 2018).…”

“All the World's a Stage?” A Role Theory Analysis of City Diplomacy in Global Migration Governance

“…As the examples in this article's introductory paragraph demonstrate, some cities and city networks are, however, increasingly developing global-level city diplomacy on topics of migration policy beyond questions of integration; this trend remains under-researched in migration studies. Pioneer research comes mostly from the policy field itself (Thouez 2020, 2022; Van Haasen 2020), as well as from IR, urban, and legal studies (Durmuş 2021; Kihlgren Grandi 2020; Kosovac and Pejic 2021). To face this two-fold research gap on city engagement in the global governance of migration , migration studies’ “local turn” must (1) overcome a predominant focus on integration governance, to the detriment of migration governance and (2) expand governance analyses from the local, national, and regional levels toward the global level.…”

A low-cost business-oriented seaport energy effective management platform

“…As it is defined by the technical directive TOTEE 20701-1/2017, article 5 of 'KENAK' [32], CO2 emissions are produced due to the consumable electricity that can be calculated according to in (13):…”

“…The released CO2 emissions to the atmosphere were estimated according to the Greek legislation, only from electricity consumption, as it is defined in the technical directive TOTEE 20701-1/ 2017, article 5 of 'KENAK' [32]. The annual CO2 emissions due to the use of external lighting system, are estimated equal to 1.733 tn CO2.…”