跨越城市网络的国家主权:新加坡与全球城邦外交

Ricardo Martinez, Tim Bunnell
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尽管城市外交的相关性不断扩大,打破了传统的以国家为中心的国际政治概念,但城市政府日益增长的跨国活力仍然植根于以国家为中心的国际政体之中,并在结构上受到这种政体的制约。我们通过研究新加坡作为城市国家的特殊性,以及这对其作为城市政策典范进行全球自我宣传的能力意味着什么,来说明这一点。当城市国家有选择性地决定在城市网络等以城市为基础的机构中与 "同级城市 "接触时,它是在一种由政治权威和决策权主导的等级逻辑中这样做的,这种政治权威和决策权来自于它与其他主权国家建立娱乐关系的能力和兴趣。通过反事实逻辑,新加坡突出的跨国城市地位揭示了当前城市外交的制约因素,因为其他仅仅是城市一级的政府被迫在一种以(缺乏)进入国家为中心的机构场所和资源为框架的逻辑下进行跨国联合。对绝大多数城市政府而言,城市网络是绕过传统政策尺度的必经之路,这一点与新加坡形成鲜明对比。本文在有关城市政策流动性和城市网络的文献之间架起了一座理论桥梁,挖掘新加坡的 "特权 "地位,以加深我们对城市与国家之间关系的理解。在此过程中,我们将城市在国际上的崛起置于当代全球治理的大背景下,并对夸大的叙述进行了纠正。
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National sovereignty across city networks: Singapore and the diplomacy of a global city-state
Even though the expanding relevance of city diplomacy has unsettled the traditional state-centered conceptualization of international politics, the growing transnational dynamism of city governments is still embedded in, and structurally constrained by, a state-centric international polity. We exemplify this through consideration of Singapore’s exceptionalism as a city-state, and what this means for its capacity for global self-promotion as an urban policy model. When the city-state selectively decides to engage among ‘peer cities’ in city-based institutional venues like city networks, it does so within a hierarchical logic dominated by the political authority and decision-making powers that derive from its capacity for and interest in entertaining relations with other sovereign nation-states. Through a counterfactual logic, Singapore’s outstanding transnational urban position reveals the current constraints of city diplomacy, as other merely city-level governments are compelled to join forces transnationally within a logic framed in terms of (lack of) access to state-centric institutional venues and resources. For the overwhelming majority of city governments, in contrast to Singapore, city networks are obligatory passage points to bypass traditional policy scales. Extending a theoretical bridge between the bodies of literature on urban policy mobilities and city networks, the article excavates Singapore’s ‘privileged’ position to deepen our understanding of the relationship between the city and the state. In doing so, we situate and provide a corrective to overstated narratives of the international rise of cities in the larger contemporary picture of global governance.
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