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.

This volume brings a multi-disciplinary perspective to an underexplored dimension of globalization: transnational transfers facilitated by non-state actors and the implications for global development

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