Transnational Transfers and Global Development

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 relevantsocial 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

• 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

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