Transnational Actors in War and Peace

David Malet is Director of the Security Policy Studies program of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. He is the author of Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts and Biotechnology and International Security. Miriam J. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University, Canada. She is the author of Windows of Opportunity: How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Political Change.

• Introduction: The Transnational CenturyDavid Malet and Miriam J. Anderson1. Knights of Columbus Catholic Recreation Clubs in Great Britain, 1917–19Luke Flanagan2. Transnational Feminist Praxis in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the Aftermath of the Second World WarCatia Cecilia Confortini3.Governing Conflict through Transnational Corporations: The Case of Conflict MineralsVirginia Haufler4. Beyond the Conflict: Diasporas and Postconflict Government ReconstructionJennifer M. Brinkerhoff5 Exiles and Political Islam: Contrasting Khomeini’s Religious Nationalism with bin Laden’s Violent GlobalismAriel I. Ahram and John Gledhill6. Foreign Fighters in the Syrian Civil WarDavid Malet7. Mercenaries Gone Legit: Private Security Professionals and Private Military Security Companies as Transnational Actors Matthew LeRiche8. Transnational Humanitarian Action and Regime Complexity: The Case of Syria Phil Orchard9 Women’s Advocacy Groups in Peace Negotiations Miriam J. Anderson10 Containing Conflict: Authoritative Transnational Actors and the Management of Company- Community Conflict Kate MacdonaldConclusion: Complex TransnationalismMiriam J. Anderson and David MaletContributorsIndex

Overall, the book maintains a unified narrative throughout, is presented clearly, and can be read either as a cohesive whole or by individual chapter. The editors have clearly invested time in ensuring that each chapter speaks to at least one other chapter, thus bringing together ideas examining different aspects of transnationalism both theoretically and empirically [. . . . ] This book would be suitable as both a reference work on transnationalism and an undergraduate reader for an advanced seminar course. Ultimately, it also provides policy value through its numerous empirical examples and applied knowledge from the field and is a valuable read for social scientists concerned with international politics and peace and conflict more generally.