01371nam a2200169 4500 510183 510183 190802b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Stren, Richard 7702 Toronto and Sao Paulo: Cities and international diplomacy 2019 p.375-404. With globalization, the largest cities in the world have been growing in economic importance. And their local powers have often been enhanced as a result of decentralization reforms over the past two decades. In this context, cities—and particularly their mayors—have been reaching out to other cities and jurisdictions to pursue a variety of goals. One term for this process is “paradiplomacy,” but most of the literature on the subject gives little attention to the local political dynamics behind these initiatives. In this article, we explore these local dynamics through a comparison of two major cities, Toronto, Canada, and São Paulo, Brazil. The cases show that external initiatives, both in scope and direction, vary according to the political strategies of the elected mayors. These strategies are strongly affected by the local context and by the political logic of mayoral leadership. - Reproduced. Diplomacy 7703 Friendly, Abigail 7704 Urban Affairs Review Cities and towns ddc AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 384123 IIPA IIPA 2019-08-02 55(2), Mar, 2019: p.375-404. AR120139 2019-08-02 AR