In this article, I argue that there is a startling resonance between Hans Morgenthau’s conception of the political and power and recent analyses of an urbanizing international realm. By making this connection clear, I depart from a mechanistic understanding of politics, which tends to inform both conventional International Relations views and some claims in urban studies pertaining to the rise of global cities as international actors. Turning to Morgenthau’s conception of the political and power also has wider implications for International Relations studies of urbanization: it helps explain a tendency toward depoliticization caused by ignoring the conflictual character of the political. The emphasis on the political, on the other hand, serves as a bridge between International Relations and urbanization studies by creating conditions for the repoliticization of urban space. After illustrating the existential manifestation of the political and its violent outfalls, the remainder of this article turns to its relational and dialogical manifestation that points out the shortcomings of reading the political merely as an existential concept in the context of urbanization.

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城市化国际中的政治力量

在本文中，我认为汉斯·摩根索的政治和权力概念与最近对城市化国际领域的分析之间存在惊人的共鸣。通过明确这种联系，我脱离了对政治的机械理解，这种理解往往会影响传统的国际关系观点和城市研究中关于全球城市作为国际参与者的崛起的一些主张。转向摩根索的政治和权力概念，对城市化的国际关系研究也有更广泛的意义：它有助于解释由于忽视政治的冲突特征而导致的去政治化趋势。另一方面，强调政治，通过为城市空间的再政治化创造条件，充当国际关系和城市化研究之间的桥梁。在说明了政治的存在性表现及其暴力后果之后，本文的其余部分转向其关系性和对话性的表现，指出在城市化背景下将政治仅仅作为一种存在性概念来解读的缺点。