Sarah J. Mahler
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225619
- eISBN:
- 9780520929869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225619.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter argues that Salvadoran migration is most certainly transnational. However, its main focus is on if and how gender relations have been transformed in northern La Union. The discussion ...
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This chapter argues that Salvadoran migration is most certainly transnational. However, its main focus is on if and how gender relations have been transformed in northern La Union. The discussion pinpoints different discourses, practices, and processes that influence gender relations. It also argues that transnational influences are a major but not single agent for change. The chapter shows that multiple agents and agencies at the regional, local, and transnational levels affect gender relations. There are times when these work together, and there are other times when they work against each other. The chapter ends by addressing the attitudes of boys and girls in northern La Union with regards to migration, and considers how these have been shaped by transnational processes.Less
This chapter argues that Salvadoran migration is most certainly transnational. However, its main focus is on if and how gender relations have been transformed in northern La Union. The discussion pinpoints different discourses, practices, and processes that influence gender relations. It also argues that transnational influences are a major but not single agent for change. The chapter shows that multiple agents and agencies at the regional, local, and transnational levels affect gender relations. There are times when these work together, and there are other times when they work against each other. The chapter ends by addressing the attitudes of boys and girls in northern La Union with regards to migration, and considers how these have been shaped by transnational processes.
Gregory Messenger
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198716464
- eISBN:
- 9780191785061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716464.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Company and Commercial Law
This chapter sets out the two principal claims of the book. First, it supports the analysis of international law through a process-based account, specifically one tied to the notion of globalization. ...
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This chapter sets out the two principal claims of the book. First, it supports the analysis of international law through a process-based account, specifically one tied to the notion of globalization. Acknowledging the multiple actors and jurisdictional influences on the development of WTO law in particular necessitates a means to clarify the complex interplay involved. Rejecting the use of empiricist approaches to examining law, the chapter turns to the second claim, that to understand the development of WTO law as a complex process requires the use of a pluralist causal account. The chapter concludes by reframing three common lenses for the analysis of law into causal influences, introducing the three causal categories which are the focus of Chapter 3.Less
This chapter sets out the two principal claims of the book. First, it supports the analysis of international law through a process-based account, specifically one tied to the notion of globalization. Acknowledging the multiple actors and jurisdictional influences on the development of WTO law in particular necessitates a means to clarify the complex interplay involved. Rejecting the use of empiricist approaches to examining law, the chapter turns to the second claim, that to understand the development of WTO law as a complex process requires the use of a pluralist causal account. The chapter concludes by reframing three common lenses for the analysis of law into causal influences, introducing the three causal categories which are the focus of Chapter 3.
Rosemary Foot (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199919864
- eISBN:
- 9780199345601
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199919864.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Understanding China’s world role has become one of the crucial intellectual exercises of the 21st Century. A full and sophisticated understanding of that topic requires us to capture some of the key ...
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Understanding China’s world role has become one of the crucial intellectual exercises of the 21st Century. A full and sophisticated understanding of that topic requires us to capture some of the key complex and simultaneous interactions between the global and domestic levels in the study of China’s international behavior. The approach adopted here is receptive to work in International Relations that questions the notion that the domestic and international represent two different levels of analysis subject to their own internal logics. It also contributes to a further breaching of the divide between those in China studies who predominantly study China’s domestic society and politics, and those who focus mainly on its external relations. Notable too is the books adoption of a multidisciplinary approach. IR scholars are joined by historians, area studies specialists, social anthropologists, and environmental experts to examine, across three main sections of the book, Chinese conceptions of the country’s status and role in global politics; some of the transnational processes that are transforming China and other parts of the world; and the impact of globalization on China and the domestic responses—from resistance to embrace—that it generates.Less
Understanding China’s world role has become one of the crucial intellectual exercises of the 21st Century. A full and sophisticated understanding of that topic requires us to capture some of the key complex and simultaneous interactions between the global and domestic levels in the study of China’s international behavior. The approach adopted here is receptive to work in International Relations that questions the notion that the domestic and international represent two different levels of analysis subject to their own internal logics. It also contributes to a further breaching of the divide between those in China studies who predominantly study China’s domestic society and politics, and those who focus mainly on its external relations. Notable too is the books adoption of a multidisciplinary approach. IR scholars are joined by historians, area studies specialists, social anthropologists, and environmental experts to examine, across three main sections of the book, Chinese conceptions of the country’s status and role in global politics; some of the transnational processes that are transforming China and other parts of the world; and the impact of globalization on China and the domestic responses—from resistance to embrace—that it generates.
Harold Hongju Koh
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190912185
- eISBN:
- 9780190912215
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190912185.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
Will Donald trump international law? Since Trump’s administration took office in January 2017, this question has haunted almost every issue area of international law. This book, by one of our leading ...
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Will Donald trump international law? Since Trump’s administration took office in January 2017, this question has haunted almost every issue area of international law. This book, by one of our leading international lawyers—a former Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department, former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and former Yale Law Dean—argues that President Trump has thus far enjoyed less success than many believe, because he does not own the pervasive “transnational legal process” that governs these issue areas. This book shows how those opposing Trump’s policies in his administration’s first two years have successfully triggered transnational legal process as part of a collective counterstrategy akin to Muhammad Ali’s famous “rope-a-dope.” The book surveys many fields of international law: immigration and refugees, human rights, climate change, denuclearization, trade diplomacy, relations with North Korea, Russia and Ukraine, and America’s “Forever War” against Al Qaeda and the Islamic State and its ongoing challenges in Syria. This tour d’horizon illustrates the many techniques that other participants in the transnational legal process have used to blunt Trump’s early initiatives across a broad area of issues. While this counterstrategy has been wearing, the book concludes that the high stakes, and the long-term implications for the future of global governance, make the continuing struggle both worthwhile and necessary.Less
Will Donald trump international law? Since Trump’s administration took office in January 2017, this question has haunted almost every issue area of international law. This book, by one of our leading international lawyers—a former Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department, former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and former Yale Law Dean—argues that President Trump has thus far enjoyed less success than many believe, because he does not own the pervasive “transnational legal process” that governs these issue areas. This book shows how those opposing Trump’s policies in his administration’s first two years have successfully triggered transnational legal process as part of a collective counterstrategy akin to Muhammad Ali’s famous “rope-a-dope.” The book surveys many fields of international law: immigration and refugees, human rights, climate change, denuclearization, trade diplomacy, relations with North Korea, Russia and Ukraine, and America’s “Forever War” against Al Qaeda and the Islamic State and its ongoing challenges in Syria. This tour d’horizon illustrates the many techniques that other participants in the transnational legal process have used to blunt Trump’s early initiatives across a broad area of issues. While this counterstrategy has been wearing, the book concludes that the high stakes, and the long-term implications for the future of global governance, make the continuing struggle both worthwhile and necessary.
Daniel Béland and Klaus Petersen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447306443
- eISBN:
- 9781447311607
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447306443.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This introduction chapter develops the overall framework for the following chapters. First, it demonstrates that there is a need to take a closer look at the development of key concepts in social ...
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This introduction chapter develops the overall framework for the following chapters. First, it demonstrates that there is a need to take a closer look at the development of key concepts in social policy language such as ‘welfare state’, ‘social security’, ‘welfare society’. The terms, metaphors, and concepts we use when studying social policy are far from innocent and are closely tied to political struggles and transnational processes. Therefore, from a comparative and international perspective, studying terminology and concept formation is an important part of both political and policy analysis. Second, the chapter discusses different approaches to the study of social policy concepts and language, including conceptual history, discourse analysis, and the role of ideas literature. Third, this introductory chapter outlines the structure and the content of the volume as a whole.Less
This introduction chapter develops the overall framework for the following chapters. First, it demonstrates that there is a need to take a closer look at the development of key concepts in social policy language such as ‘welfare state’, ‘social security’, ‘welfare society’. The terms, metaphors, and concepts we use when studying social policy are far from innocent and are closely tied to political struggles and transnational processes. Therefore, from a comparative and international perspective, studying terminology and concept formation is an important part of both political and policy analysis. Second, the chapter discusses different approaches to the study of social policy concepts and language, including conceptual history, discourse analysis, and the role of ideas literature. Third, this introductory chapter outlines the structure and the content of the volume as a whole.
Ulrich Beck, Nathan Sznaider, and Rainer Winter (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239185
- eISBN:
- 9781846313219
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313219
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global ...
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Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.Less
Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.
Harold Hongju Koh
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190912185
- eISBN:
- 9780190912215
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190912185.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
How to resist President Donald Trump’s assault on international law? This introduction sketches the tripartite plan of this book. First, it discusses a counterstrategy of resistance based on ...
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How to resist President Donald Trump’s assault on international law? This introduction sketches the tripartite plan of this book. First, it discusses a counterstrategy of resistance based on transnational legal process. Second, it illustrates that counterstrategy with respect to immigration and refugees, and human rights; the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and trade diplomacy; with countries of concern such as North Korea, Russia, and Ukraine; and with respect to America’s wars: Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Afghanistan, and Syria. Third, it reviews what broader issues are at stake in the looming battle between maintaining the post-World War II framework of Kantian global governance versus shifting to an Orwellian system of authoritarian spheres of influence.Less
How to resist President Donald Trump’s assault on international law? This introduction sketches the tripartite plan of this book. First, it discusses a counterstrategy of resistance based on transnational legal process. Second, it illustrates that counterstrategy with respect to immigration and refugees, and human rights; the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and trade diplomacy; with countries of concern such as North Korea, Russia, and Ukraine; and with respect to America’s wars: Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Afghanistan, and Syria. Third, it reviews what broader issues are at stake in the looming battle between maintaining the post-World War II framework of Kantian global governance versus shifting to an Orwellian system of authoritarian spheres of influence.
