The 2008 Global Cities Index

Cities bear the brunt of the world's financial meltdowns, crime waves, and climate crises in ways national governments never will. So, when Foreign Policy, A.T. Kearney, and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs teamed up to measure globalization around the world, we focused on the 60 cities that shape our lives the most.

OCTOBER 15, 2008

National governments may shape the broad outlines of globalization, but where does it really play out? Where are globalization's successes and failures most acute? Where else but the places where most of humanity now chooses to live and work -- cities. The world's biggest, most interconnected cities help set global agendas, weather transnational dangers, and serve as the hubs of...

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