Transnational actors in war and peace : militants, activists, and corporations in world politics /

Transnational actors in war and peace : militants, activists, and corporations in world politics / David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson, editors. - Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : the transnational century / Knights of Columbus Catholic recreation clubs in Great Britain, 1917-1919 / Transnational feminist praxis in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in the aftermath of the Second World War / Governing conflict through transnational corporations : the case of conflict minerals / Beyond the conflict : diasporas and post-conflict government reconstruction / Exiles and political Islam : contrasting Khomeini's religious nationalism with Bin Laden's violent globalism / Foreign fighters in the Syrian civil war / Mercenaries gone legit : private security professionals (PSPs) and private military security companies (PMSCs) as transnational actors / Transnational humanitarian action and regime complexity : the case of Syria / Women's advocacy groups in peace negotiations / Containing conflict : authoritative transnational actors and the management of company-community conflict / Conclusion : complex transnationalism / David Malet and Miriam J. Anderson -- Luke Flanagan -- Catia Cecelia Confortini -- Virginia Haufler -- Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff -- Ariel Ahram and John Gledhill -- David Malet -- Matthew Leriche -- Phil Orchard -- Miriam J. Anderson -- Kate MacDonald -- Miriam J. Anderson and David Malet.

Transnational Actors in War and Peace explores the identities, organization, strategies, and influence of transnational actors involved in contentious politics, armed conflict, and peacemaking over the last one hundred years. While the study of transnational politics has been a rapidly growing field, to date, the disparate array of actors have not been analyzed alongside each other, making it difficult to develop a common theoretical framework or determine their relative influence on international stability, war, and peace. This work seeks to fill this gap by bringing together a diverse set of scholars focused on a range of transnational actors, such as: pirates, foreign fighters, terrorists, private military security companies, criminal networks, religious groups, diasporas, political exiles, NGOs, environmental activists, global news agencies, and feminist advocacy networks. Each chapter examines a different transnational actor and is structured around five components: how the actor is organized; how it interacts with other actors; how it communicates both internally and externally; how it influences conflict/peace; and how it reflects developments in transnationalism.



9781626164444

2016058220


Transnationalism--Political aspects.
International relations.


Electronic Books.

JZ1320 / .T736 2017