A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Turku (Finland) as a Case Study in the City Diplomacy of Small Urban Centers, 1971–2011
Authors: Clerc Louis
Editors: Sohaela Amiri, Efe Sevin
Edition: 1
Publishing place: London
Publication year: 2020
Book title : City Diplomacy. Current Trends and Future Prospects
Series title: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
First page : 331
Last page: 358
ISBN: 978-3-030-45614-6
eISBN: 978-3-030-45615-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45615-3
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/48426305
While academic research and policy reports emphasize the new political
assertiveness of urban centers as sub-national units, case studies have
mostly concentrated on the world’s biggest cities, often forgetting
smaller cities—that is the immense majority of the world’s urban
centers. Available research has also had a distinct presentist feel,
failing for the most part to consider current developments as emerging
from past trends. This chapter studies the international outreach
efforts of the city of Turku, located in Southwestern Finland. Finnish
cities have been no exceptions in the recent development of city
diplomacy, as they too have developed institutions and processes by
which they have pursued internationally their political, cultural, and
economic interests. These institutions and processes, though, have been
the continuation of previous trends. Turku is a fantastic testing ground
for that idea, as it has evolved from being Leningrad’s first twin city
in the late 1960s to being a member of variouspol international
organizations and EU-based Baltic cooperation schemes. The chapter
further looks at the implication of Melissen and van der Pluijm’s (van
der Pluijm & Melissen 2007)
taxonomy of cities’ semi-diplomatic tasks (economic and commercial
promotion, cultural and scientific relations, city branding, networking,
information gathering, and lobbying).
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