Recent scholars have broadened the study of transnational relations, once limited to political
economy, to include contentious international politics. This is a refreshing trend, but most of …

" Transnational Social Movements and Global Social Politics examines a cast of global
actors left out of the traditional studies of international politics. It generates a theoretically …

This book attempts to contribute to the growing literature on social movements and other civil
society groups operating across state borders. Building on recent research in this field, our …

World politics is changing, but our conceptual paradigms have not kept pace. The classic
state-centric paradigm assumes that states are the only significant actors in world politics …

Global integration of various types has been occurring for hundreds of years, but recent
decades have witnessed an especially rapid increase in the scope and scale of …

Cross-border and, indeed, global activities among non-government groups and
organizations today take a wide variety of forms. Social scientific studies of these activities …

As I write these words, the now-familiar stream of protests around the world continues. Three
stories from the recent period illustrate three properties of emerging transnational protest …

Recent decades have seen an explosion of transnational networking and activism, but
participation varies widely around the globe. Using negative binomial regression, we …

Modern social movements developed with the creation of the nationstate, and the nation-
state has for many years been the main target for protest. Although social movements have …

The subject of International Relations originally covered simply the relations between states,
for example Britain's relations with India. Economic bodies and social groups, such as …