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Transnational Transfers and Peace Operations: The Empirically Elusive Quality of the Analytic Categories

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Transnational Transfers and Global Development

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The invitation to participate in the conference that led to this volume asked participants to consider the ways in which contributions made by private individuals or groups in one country to others in another country might be better conceptualized in discussions of globalization.1 Such transnational non-state transfers appeared to creat considerable value for those receiving the transfers, yet this value-added was not well accounted for in discussions of the costs and benefits of globalization.

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    Stuart S. Brown (Professor of International Relations) (Professor of International Relations)

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Rubinstein, R.A., Kudesia, S. (2012). Transnational Transfers and Peace Operations: The Empirically Elusive Quality of the Analytic Categories. In: Brown, S.S. (eds) Transnational Transfers and Global Development. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230357495_9

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