Transnational transfers and global development

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: toward a theory of transnational transfers / Stuart Brown -- Remittances -- Collective remittances as non-state transnational transfers : patterns of transnationalism in Mexico and El Salvador / Katrina Burgess and Beatriz Tinajero -- Remittances and fragile states : what do we know? / John McPeak -- Foreign remittances in Ghana : reducing the poverty gap for individuals and the community / Deborah Pellow -- Ideas -- Global civil society and the third sector in China / Hongying Wang -- Corporate support of NGO transnational transfers in nature protection / Steven R. Brechin and Ana Jamborcic -- Learning democracy : international education and political socialization / Bandita Sijapati and Margaret G. Hermann -- Security -- Track two diplomacy and the transfer of peacebuilding capacity / Bruce W. Dayton -- Transnational transfers and peace operations : the empirically elusive quality of the analytic categories / Robert A. Rubinstein and Suprita Kudesia -- Private security companies and private transnational transfers / Renée de Nevers -- Conclusion: this volume and future study / Stuart Brown.