Institutions of the Global Metropolitan Order: The Global Mediator of Metropolises and Megalopolises (The G.M.M.M.)

Abstract

Taking into account the UN reports regarding the expansion and proliferation of the great cities, we can talk about XXIst century as a century of full urban rise. Urban policy is representing increasingly a field of great interest for the doctrine of global studies, surpassing the limits of the national politics. Within the present paper, approaching the issue in a futuristic method -and after a brief depiction of the main framework (by starting with the second half of the XXIst century) in which metropolises and megalopolises are expected to expand-, we shall offer several definitions for innovative concepts as: metropolization, global order of metropolises and megalopolises, regional/continental metropolitan arches. Also, we shall try to depict the general shape of some specific institutions for this type of global order, based on the main role of metropolises and megalopolises, inclusively to reveal the principal attributions of what we call here the ”Global Mediator of Metropolises and Megalopolises”, and also, to articulate some of ”global metropolitan Charter” principles. The diplomatic relations between such new actors in relations with traditional political actors (states, intergovernmental international organizations) and also the concept of the ”global metropolitan law” are also, approached into the present paper.