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Transnational Relations and World Politics : An introduction - Transnational Relations and the State-centric paragdigm

Q: Should more attention be paid to the effects of transnational relations on interstate relations and is the state-centric paradigm adequate if we wish to explore these effects?

Evans: 'It is not interesting to exclude traditional state behavior and then study the residual only. What is interesting is the contamination of interstate relations by transnational relations.'

4 important questions on Transnational Relations and World Politics : An introduction - Transnational Relations and the State-centric paragdigm

Why have sophisticated proponents of the state-centered view deliberately excluded transnational relations from the interstate system?

On the grounds that their direct political importance is small and that their direct political importance is small and that their indirect effects enter, along with domestic factors, into the formation of national foreign policies.

Should more attention be paid to the effects of transnational relations on interstate relations and is the state-centric paradigm adequate if we wish to explore these effects?

Evans: "It is not interesting to exclude traditional state behavior and then study the residual only. What is interesting is the contamination of interstate relations by transnational relations."