Transnational Relations and World Politics : An introduction - Some effects of Transnational Relations on Interstate Politics

14 important questions on Transnational Relations and World Politics : An introduction - Some effects of Transnational Relations on Interstate Politics

How do transnational interactions or organizations affect interstate politics?

They increase the sensitivity of societies to one another and thereby alter relationships between governments.

What is the economic example for the effect of transnational interaction on interstate politics

Richard N Cooper: small change in national state policy on business and banking can have large effect on the system

What is the communication example for the effect of transnational interaction on interstate politics

Varies groups in different societies, can adopt other societies behavior. This is a result of global mass communication.
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James A. Field

Traces the activity of missionaries and the cultural package that accompanied the protestant gospel in the 19th century as well as the economic and evangelical activities of multinational; business enterprises in the 20th century.

Peter B Evans

Argues that advertising by these multinational enterprises affects popular attitudes in less developed societies to the detriment of their autonomy and economic development

Robert W. Cox

Refers to the multinational enterprises as the new hero of functionalist theory.

The cybernetic school of theorists

Have stressed the effect of transactions on mass attitude change

What do Neo-functionalist and cybernetic school of interest have in common

Attempt to specify certain effects of transnational relations that are likely to constrain governments and make their policies more cooperative

Why would following an effective policy toward a new transnational actor be too costly on bureaucratic grounds?

New actors (enterprises) with new patterns of behavior may raise difficulties for bureaucratic governments that tend to follow standers operations when reacting to change

Why are perceptions of transnational relations by governmental elites a crucial link between dependence and state policy?

If statesmen perceive both interdependance and system-fragility will they allow considerations such as these to constrain there actions

What is informal penetration and examples?

Governments that attempt to manipulate transnational interactions to achieve results explicitly political: E.G The use of tourist as spies or the cultivation of sympathetic ethnic or religious groups in other states

How can governments direct flow of economic transactions to their own politico-economic ends?

Threw the use of tariff and quota policies , by e.g higher tariffs in less developed countries they can discourage manufacturing

Why are transnational organizations and policy of home governments important to understanding conflict between governments?

Where home governments are involved, the presence of transnational organizations may exert a distinctive effect

What is clear by many authors in this volume regarding attitude change?

That the attitudes produced by transnational relations will not necessarily lead to either universal concord or to the continued growth  of transnational relations themselves.

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