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Transnational Transfers and Global Development 2012 Edition
Contributor(s): Brown, S. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 023028440X     ISBN-13: 9780230284401
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
OUR PRICE: $52.24  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | International Relations - Trade & Tariffs
- Political Science | Political Economy
- Political Science | Globalization
Dewey: 332.042
LCCN: 2011052936
Series: International Political Economy
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" L (1.05 lbs) 237 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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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.
 
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