Transnational Transfers and Global Development - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 134932955X ISBN 13: 9781349329557

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Riassunto

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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'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

L'autore:

STEVEN R. BRECHIN Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USABRUCE W. DAYTON Associate Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USAKATRINA 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, USARENÉE DE NEVERS Assistant Professor in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USAMARGARET G. HERMANN Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs of Syracuse University, USAANA JAMBORCIC is a passionate environmentalist with a sustainability mission and visionSUPRITA KUDESIA leads capacity building and operations efforts in the Grants & Contracts department at PSIJOHN MCPEAK Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USADEBORAH PELLOW Professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USAROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN Professor of Anthropology and International Relations at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USABANDITA SIJAPATI Adjunct Professor at Nepa School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NepalBEATRIZ TINAJERO is working on the development of business models that can have a relevant social impact through the incorporation of small producers in their supply chain, focusing on the hotel industry as a starting pointHONGYING WANG Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 134932955X
• ISBN 13: 9781349329557
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Brown S.