Transnational Transfers and Global Development

Herausgegeben:Brown, S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aninterdisciplinary group ofscholars and practitioners analyse multi-variegated, cross-border activities in which non-state actors engage through a single conceptual lens.

Produktdetails

• International Political Economy Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-28440-1
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780230284401
• ISBN-10: 023028440X
• Artikelnr.: 34740359

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

'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