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To understand more concretely and rigorously the variegated role of global cities in international political-economic affairs, this volume offers four hypotheses, exploring the origins of the city’s global political influence. These hypotheses are tested using historical data drawn from fifteen cities broadly considered to include the most politically influential urban communities on earth. These cities, as noted in table 1-1, vary considerably in size and political-economic function, but they are all ranked prominently in major global surveys of influential global cities or are analytically important foils to them.²⁶