Gateway Cities in Global Production Networks

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production. Apart from facilitating the interlinking of economic activities in the surrounding regions with the global economy, gateway cities have enormous implications for how certain regions participate in the global economy. Based on a case study of the oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia the book maps gateway cities, explores why these cities have come to occupy a gateway role, and evaluates their implications for regional economic development. To this aim, the book links components from research on the World City Network with Global Production Network research and demonstrates how this intersection creates synergies for studying the role of cities in economic globalization. The main audiences that this book appeals to are researchers and students interested in debates on regional development and the role of cities in the global economy. The book is also attractive to scholars interested in the organization of extractive industries.

Presents unique insights into the spatial organization of the oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia Provides a novel analytical perspective to study the role of cities in economic globalization and their effects on regional economic development Analyses how the gateway city Singapore influences regional economic development along the oil and gas global production network

Autorentext
Dr. Moritz Breul works as a research fellow at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne, where he received his Ph.D. in 2019. During his doctorate he was a visiting research fellow at the National University of Singapore in the Department of Geography (2016) and at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in the Economic Research Center in Jakarta (2017). Before starting his position at the University of Cologne, Moritz Breul received a Master degree in Economic Geography from the University of Hanover and a Bachelor degree in Human Geography from the University of Muenster. His major research interests lie in cities in globalization, global production networks, global value chains, regional economic development, foreign direct investments, regional economic linkages in the Global South, the spatial evolution of industries.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Conceptual framework.- Chapter 3. Research design.- Chapter 4. Cities as regional nodes in global value chains: The example of the oil and gas industry in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 5. An intermediate step to resource peripheries: The strategic coupling of gateway cities in the upstream oil and gas GPN.- Chapter 6. Filtering strategic coupling: territorial intermediaries in oil and gas global production networks in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 7. Concluding discussion.- Appendix.