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Transnational transfers and global development
Title
Transnational transfers and global development / edited by Stuart S. Brown.
ISBN
9780230357495
0230357490
9780230284401
023028440X
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (xvi, 237 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"This pioneering volume invites scholars from different social science disciplines to contribute their competing perspectives to a far-ranging albeit understudied dimension of globalization. Globalization has been defined as progressively integrated, national product and factor markets, cemented by the revolution in transportation and communications technology. This process has been driven by transnational corporations who have erected intricate, global supply chains. Such commercial advances have, in turn, intensified the interdependence among states and the authors raise a number of questions: Can the multi-variegated, cross-border activities in which such non-state actors engage be analyzed through a single conceptual lens? Can non-state transnational transfers be so clearly distinguished from exchanges in practice? What are the implications of transnational transfers, where material and non-material value is transferred abroad with no assurance, or even expectation of reciprocal compensation, for sovereignty? The case studies range from the impact of worker remittances on failed states to capacity building by global civil society on behalf of nascent NGOs in China to the transfer of security (or insecurity) via peacekeepers, track two diplomats and private security contractors"--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Palgrave political & international studies collection 2012.
Other formats
Print version: Transnational transfers and global development. Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Series
International political economy series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Table of contents
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction: toward a theory of transnational transfers / Stuart Brown
Remittances
Collective remittances as non-state transnational transfers : patterns of transnationalism in Mexico and El Salvador / Katrina Burgess and Beatriz Tinajero
Remittances and fragile states : what do we know? / John McPeak
Foreign remittances in Ghana : reducing the poverty gap for individuals and the community / Deborah Pellow
Ideas
Global civil society and the third sector in China / Hongying Wang
Corporate support of NGO transnational transfers in nature protection / Steven R. Brechin and Ana Jamborcic
Learning democracy : international education and political socialization / Bandita Sijapati and Margaret G. Hermann
Security
Track two diplomacy and the transfer of peacebuilding capacity / Bruce W. Dayton
Transnational transfers and peace operations : the empirically elusive quality of the analytic categories / Robert A. Rubinstein and Suprita Kudesia
Private security companies and private transnational transfers / Renée de Nevers
Conclusion: this volume and future study / Stuart Brown.
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