The internationalization of cities and the constitution of a new international space of power involves a much more expressive number of cities than the usual global cities. Nowadays, dozens of international organizations are composed of regional capitals, medium, and even small cities. With...

This paper provides an overview of the ocean economy in the EU Outermost Regions (EU ORs). It discusses the opportunities and challenges that the EU ORs are facing in light of emerging global trends, laying out priority actions for making the ocean a factor of competitiveness and...

This paper explores the innovation dynamics of the EU Outermost Regions (EU ORs) through patenting behaviour. It emphasises the potential for international collaborations with a wide range of partners, and recommends to mobilise the resources and strategies provided by the EU to strengthen...

The article gives a review of the main trends of globalization development in the modern world in close interdependence with region-nalization processes. The author analyses the social and human problems of the development of Ukrainian regions in the context of their role in retaining the state...

The paper summarizes the concept of Global city with Chinese characteristics from a comparative perspective, points out that the Chinese emphasis on global cities' influence and competitiveness, which is different from the command and control function stressed by the Western. Taking Beijing as a...

Over the last decade or so, the debate on the planning and development of the Paris (Île-de-France) region has revolved around two little words: "Grand Paris", or Greater Paris. Despite existing political and scientific controversies surrounding the future of the capital region, three major...

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

Employees of "globalized" firms face a riskier, but potentially more rewarding, menu of labor market outcomes. Daveri, Manasse, and Serra document this neglected tradeoff of globalization for a sample of Indian manufacturing firms. On the one hand, the employees of firms subject to foreign...

In this article, we apply global value chain (GVC) analysis to recent trends in the global automotive industry, with special attention paid to the case of North America. We use the three main elements of the GVC framework firm-level chain governance, power and institutions to highlight some of...