This article examines the changing relationship between global cities and national states in Western Europe post ‘70. Most approaches to the formation of global cities are based on a top-zero approach to the spatial scale, which leads to an emphasis on the decline in power of national states: while the global scale is expanding, the national scale is expected to contract. In contrast, in this article globalisation is conceived as a contradictory reconfiguration of spatial scales, including those where national states are organised. From this point of view, national states are not being eroded under contemporary geo-economic conditions, but rather rearticulated, re-territorialised and re-escalated. The resulting re-escalation of state space is provisionally referred to as a ‘glocalised’ state form. As capital accumulation nodes, global cities are key sites of post-forceful forms of industrial development. As coordinates of state territorial power, global cities are local or regional levels within the glocalised and re-territorialised matrices of state spatial organisation. The re-escalation of the state has thus served as an important cumulation strategy through which these transformed state institutions are trying to promote the territorial competitiveness of their main urban regions. These arguments are illustrated by a general discussion of the interplay between global cities and national states in contemporary Western Europe. The final section suggests that new theories and representations on the geographical and space of the state are needed, in order to account for the rapidly changing economic and political geography of the beginning of the 20th century capitalism. Abstract This article examines the changing relationship between the global cities and the national States on the West Europe of the post’ 70. Most of the approaches about the formation of global cities are based on a zero-sum concept in relation to the spatial scale, what are the outcomes to emphatise the drop of the power of the national States: While the spatial scale expands, the national scale is stated to contract. By contrast, in this article, globalisation is conceived as a Contradictory reconfiguration of the spatial landscape, including hose in wich the national States are organised. From this point of view, the national States are not being eroded under the contemporary geo-economic conditions, but reformulated, re-territorialised and re-scaled. The resulting rescaled configuration of the space of the State is temporarily referred to as ‘glocalised’ State form. As nodes of accumulation of capital, global cities are key places of post-fordist forms of industrial development. As coordinators of territorial State power, global cities are local and/or regional levels within the location and re-territorial registration of the spatial organisation of the State. The re-scaling of the State has been going to serve as an important strategy of accumulative through wich, these Transformed Institutions of the State are moving to promote the territorial competitiveness of its main urban regions. These arguments are illustrated through a general discussion of the interphase between global cities and the national States in contemporary Western Europe. The final section highlighting that new theories an representation of the geographical scale and the space of the State are required in order to account for the fast changing economic and political geography of the beating of the Capitalism of the 21st century.