Transnational Transfers and Global Development

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.

'The authors' perspectives provide an excellent base on which to conduct further work, earning Transnational Transfers and Global Development a place on the shelves of university libraries and in the offices of professors interested in the topic.' - Curtis Frye, Technology and Society Book Reviews

Autorentext
STEVEN R. BRECHIN Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USA BRUCE W. DAYTON Associate Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA KATRINA BURGESS Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, USA, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Research at the Watson Institute of Brown University, USA RENÉE DE NEVERS Assistant Professor in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USA MARGARET G. HERMANN Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs of Syracuse University, USA ANA JAMBORCIC is a passionate environmentalist with a sustainability mission and vision SUPRITA KUDESIA leads capacity building and operations efforts in the Grants & Contracts department at PSI JOHN MCPEAK Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA DEBORAH PELLOW Professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA ROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN Professor of Anthropology and International Relations at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA BANDITA SIJAPATI Adjunct Professor at Nepa School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nepal BEATRIZ TINAJERO is working on the development of business models that can have a relevantsocial impact through the incorporation of small producers in their supply chain, focusing on the hotel industry as a starting point HONGYING WANG Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA

Inhalt
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Transnational Transfers; S.S.Brown PART I: REMITTANCES Overview; S.S.Brown Collective Remittances as Non-State Transnational Transfers: Patterns of Transnationalism in Mexico and El Salvador; K.Burgess & B.Tinajero Remittances and Fragile States: What Do We Know?; J.McPeak Foreign Remittances in Ghana: Reducing the Poverty Gap for Individuals and the Community; D.Pellow PART II: IDEAS Overview; S.S.Brown Global Civil Society and the Third Sector in China; H.Wang Corporate Support of NGO Transnational Transfers in Nature Protection; S.R.Brechin & A.Jamborcic Learning Democracy: International Education and Political Socialization; B.Sijapati & M.G.Hermann PART III: SECURITY Overview; S.S.Brown Track Two Diplomacy and the Transfer of Peacebuilding Capacity; B.W.Dayton Transnational Transfers and Peace Operations: The Empirically Elusive Quality of the Analytic Categories; R.A.Rubinstein & S.Kudesia Private Security Companies and Private Transnational Transfers; R.de Nevers Conclusion: This Volume and Future Study; S.S.Brown