ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how state sovereignty was a modern attempt at an all-inclusive solution to the question of authority. It considers the inclusion of groups and individuals in civil society that are increasingly instrumental in governance, so also does it now introduce cities into the discussion on global governance. The chapter also considers cities and global governance, and examines the locus of decision-making authority and the character of that authority; we see that cities are increasingly instrumental in global governance. Saskia Sassen argues that urban leaderships and urban activists have had to deal with issues long before national governments and inter-state treaties addressed them and suggests that cities are sites where these challenges can be studied empirically and where policy design and implementation often becomes more feasible than at national levels. The aim of the chapter is to measure current developments that show the rise of world city networks as an organizational skeleton of contemporary globalization.
