Las ciudades mundiales y globales en el medio internacional, una revisión teórico-metodológica desde las relaciones internacionales

Abstract

This paper summarizes the state of the art of the World and Global Cities studies which, adopting an International Relations point of view, have addressed the influence on global governance of World and Global Cities, together with their ability to create networks with political and economic interactions and their role as actors in the International System. Like all theoretical and methodological approaches, the one espoused by the above-mentioned studies has been subject to criticism, which has been tacked with in parallel to the consolidation of an epistemic community on the «city» in the discipline of International Relations. The author of this papers claims that thanks to the progress experienced since the eighties until today by the school of the Global City, its approach has become the best positioned perspective in the area of IR, although it is not the only one.