City diplomacy and public policy in the era of COVID-19: networked responses from the Greek Capital

• Authors: Antonios Karvounis

Title variants

PL

Dyplomacja miejska i polityka publiczna w erze COVID-19. Sieciowane reakcje z greckiej stolicy

Abstracts

PL

W ostatnich dziesięcioleciach coraz więcej nowych organizacji na szczeblu międzynarodowym aspiruje do odgrywania znaczącej roli w zarządzaniu kwestiami polityki publicznej o zasięgu globalnym. Niedawna pandemia uwypukliła różnice w reakcji państw narodowych w obliczu tego rodzaju zagrożenia zdrowia publicznego. To, że scenariusz powrotu inwestycji państwowych wydawał się możliwy, okazało się jednak mylące. Chociaż rządy wszystkich krajów koncentrowały się na własnych obywatelach, a politycy byli przekonani, że ich kraj jest lepiej przygotowany do walki z kryzysem niż sąsiedzi, luki w zarządzaniu musiały zostać wypełnione przez sieci władz niższego szczebla, których współpraca sprawiła, że decyzje polityczne miały szerszy zasięg geograficzny. W niniejszym artykule dokonano oceny roli dyplomacji miejskiej, koncentrując się na dotyczących pandemii inicjatywach miasta Ateny, które ze względu na swoje międzynarodowe powiązania zdołało uzupełnić braki w działaniach podejmowanych przez rząd centralny w czasie pandemii COVID-19 na rzecz grup najbardziej narażonych na jej negatywne skutki. Prezentowane badania bazują na analizie danych zastanych (desk research) i wykorzystaniu źródeł wtórnych.

EN

In recent decades, more and more young actors at the international level have been claiming and aspiring to play a significant role in managing public policy issues with global reach. The recent pandemic highlighted the asymmetry of nation-state responses in managing this health threat. At a time that the return-of-the-state scenario sounded familiar, it was misleading as well. Although each national government was focusing on its own people, and each claimed to have been better prepared to fight the crisis than its neighbors, governance gaps were filled by networks of sub-national authorities, whose partnerships provided a wider geographical perspective of policy decisions. In this framework, this article assesses the role of the city diplomacy, focusing on the pandemic initiatives of the city of Athens that, due to its international affiliations, managed to fill the gaps of the measures taken for the most vulnerable groups by the central government during the pandemic of COVID-19. Desk-based research and the use of secondary sources provide the scope for our analysis.

Keywords

EN

city diplomacy; global governance; city networks; COVID-19

PL

dyplomacja miejska; współzarządzanie globalne; sieci miast; COVID-19

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia z Polityki Publicznej
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2(34)
• Pages: 47-62

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Antonios Karvounis

• Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych Republiki Greckiej
• Grecki Uniwersytet Otwarty, Ateny

• https://orcid.org/0000000226826092

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Identifiers

DOI

10.33119/KSzPP/2022.2.3

Biblioteka Nauki

2093647