Abstract: The on-going COVID-19 crisis demonstrates how interlinked and networked our globalized society has become Overall, the special issue advances our knowledge of nodes in global networks by further investigating the particularities of such nodes, drawing conclusions on both the nodes themselves and the networks they are involved in Yet, there are also examples of gateway cities serving as engines of peripheral growth (Scholvin, 2017), which indicates that considerably more research is needed to fully understand nodes in global networks from this p...
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