碩士 / 淡江大學 / 國際事務與戰略研究所碩士班 / 93 / The trend of globalization, lead by the integration of the world’s economy and division of labor, has changed the form of world system. “Cities”, which aggregate capital, information and people, have become significant actors and have more interaction and cooperation with nation-states, international organizations, NGOs and other cities in the world. Every nation-state continually invests a surprising amount of information and public works infrastructure in their own primary cities in order to accommodate the changing system of globalized economics. For this reason, some focal cities in some regions possess are even stronger in areas such as high-tech communication and finance services than nation-states. This helps them to play a more important role and become the nodes of new international relations networks. This resulted in the establishment of the concept and research of the “World City ”in academia.
In addition, the continued development of globalization has caused the modification of the concept of “National Security” within a new global system. Meanwhile, the traditional nation-state system can not begin to take into consideration all the dimensions and levels involved in newly appearing security issues. Human beings, have dealt with a new global security environment, and thus traditional concepts of nation security have been transferred from national security, complex security, and global security, to human security. The “World City”, where phenomenon of globalization has been particularly noticeable, has been severely and directly affected by globalization. Therefore, cities, as a part of nation, need to effectively utilize the advantages brought by globalization to proceed with global governance and security issues, and also need to cooperate closely with each other to guarantee its own development and competitiveness.
Tokyo and Shanghai, the primary cities of the two most powerful leading nations in Asia, are the two subjects of the case study regarding empiricism. These two cities are similar in terms of social and cultural makeup conditions and are advantageously located, however they diverge when it comes to political institutions. This will help us deal with contrasting case studies and help us proceed to clarify and observe the role that global governance plays within world cities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/093TKU05322015 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Yen-Hao Huang, 黃彥豪 |
| Contributors | 翁明賢 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 214 |
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