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In the absence of a transnational government with the incentive, legitimacy, and capacity to resolve the conflict, Greece and the other eurozone countries have resorted to challenging each other’s sovereignty.
Indeed, while European citizens are being asked to sacrifice their standard of living – and even their livelihoods – for the sake of the “national economy,” transnational corporations are thriving.
But China can best avoid similar tragedies not by flexing its muscles, but by building greater multilateral cooperation to combat transnational crime along the Mekong.
With the Islamic State (ISIS), the main inspiration for transnational terror nowadays, facing near-total defeat on the ground, the group is scrambling to use what weapons it still possesses – namely, its ability to inspire young would-be terrorists around the world.
The principles underpinning such measures are anchored in SDG target 12.6, which encourages “companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.”
The European Union, a political community built on democratic consensus, was not established in order to bring about the end of the nation-state; its purpose has been to turn nationalism into a benign force of transnational cooperation.
For example, powerful groups and transnational corporations (such as the World Economic Forum, General Electric, and Rio Tinto) are gaining influence within the G-20, the G-7, and the BRICS, whose members compete among themselves for access to resources and markets.
However, some transnational issues are inherently multilateral and cannot be managed without the help of other countries.
The same is true of a long list of items: the spread of infectious diseases, the stability of global financial markets, the international trade system, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics trafficking, international crime syndicates and transnational terrorism.
In such cases, the likelihood of failure increases, because of the intrinsically multilateral nature of transnational issues in a global age, and the costly effects on US soft power that unaccepted unilateral actions may impose.
For example, 53 of Asia’s 57 transnational river basins lack any water-sharing or cooperative arrangement.
Plenty of other transnational challenges – from addressing the root causes of the Middle East refugee crisis to implementing last month’s Paris agreement to mitigate climate change – are also in the cards.
ISIS – with its transnational commitment to a caliphate that encompasses vast swaths of territory from western Syria to central Iraq – exemplifies the interrelated nature of the challenges facing the region, and the threat it poses highlights the urgent need for a new framework for action in the Middle East.
For starters, given that the Internet is a transnational network of networks, most of which are privately owned, non-state actors play a major role.
Moreover, while the Internet is transnational, the infrastructure (and people) on which it relies fall within the differing jurisdictions of sovereign states.
The bottom chessboard is the realm of transnational relations that cross borders outside of government control.
The transnational cyber domain poses new questions about the meaning of national security.
These groups, some with transnational reach, mostly engage in narcotics trafficking, arms smuggling, and kidnapping.
Latin America is distinctive in the recurring and broad overlap of mass movements professing revolutionary goals with transnational criminal operations.
At most, the two types of groups might share operational insights and revenue from transnational criminal operations.
Ironically, the strength of transnational criminal organizations in Latin America may act as a barrier to external terrorist groups.
But Latin America’s powerful transnational criminal movements, such as the gangs in Mexico that control much of the drug trafficking into the US, do not want to jeopardize their profits by associating themselves with al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
In some sub-regions, such as the Caribbean, criminal organizations sometimes have stronger and more efficient transnational operations than local governments can counter, particularly given inadequate collaboration.
On the bottom board of transnational relations outside the control of governments – pandemics, climate change, the drug trade, or transnational terrorism, for example – power is chaotically distributed.
New modes of governance, ranging from transnational networks of regulators to international civil-society organizations to multilateral institutions, are transcending and supplanting national lawmakers.
That means that we should not entirely dismiss the likelihood that a true global consciousness will develop in the future, along with transnational political communities.
The failed Times Square attack demonstrates the TTP’s growing transnational ambitions (but also that the group’s reach exceeds its grasp, at least for now).
A world, in which states’ hard power is contending with the soft power of transnational ideas, invention, and finance, needs rules.
Transnational economic activity has been an opportunity not only for business, but also for organized crime and others to liberate themselves from effective regulation.
For example, the current struggle against transnational terrorism is a struggle over winning hearts and minds, and over-reliance on hard power alone is not the path to success.
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