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Another problem is that fewer and fewer transnational agro-businesses now dominate marketing, production, and inputs.
The Clinton administration acquiesced in the Taliban’s ascension to power in 1996 and turned a blind eye as that thuggish militia, in league with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, fostered narcotics trafficking and swelled the ranks of Afghan war alumni waging transnational terrorism.
But it is also the product of a deep-rooted European conviction that transnational institutions and economic interdependence have helped establish and sustain peace across the continent for the past six decades.
After all, many problems that now affect individual countries are, in fact, transnational, and cannot be addressed by one country alone.
Anything that looks like a transnational issue is immediately deemed irrelevant to national concerns, and any coordinated international action is ridiculed and held up as a failure.
Transnational water resources have become an especially active source of competition and conflict, triggering a dam-building race and prompting growing calls for the United Nations to recognize water as a key security concern.
The combination of the estimated increase in the world’s population by two billion people, lower transport costs, better connectivity, and growing transnational social and economic networks could and should lead to increased movement of people.
On the bottom chessboard of transnational relations, power is chaotically dispersed, and it makes no sense to use traditional terms such as unipolarity, hegemony, or American empire.
Witness the connections in the war on terrorism between military actions on the top board, where the US removed a tyrant in Iraq, but simultaneously increased the ability of Al Qaeda to gain new recruits on the bottom transnational board.
NANBU, as an international NGO, would be able to cope with the transnational nature of most drug companies, while being protected from national-level lobbying or political pressure.
Likewise, ubiquitous social media generate new transnational groups, but also create opportunities for manipulation by governments and others.
With China now increasingly damming transnational rivers such as the Mekong, Salween, Brahmaputra, Irtysh, Illy, and Amur, the new projects threaten to “export” the serious degradation haunting China’s internal rivers to those rivers.
Third, the US-Japan alliance will have to face a new set of transnational challenges to our vital interests, such as pandemics, terrorism, and human outflows from failed states.
Japan’s overseas development assistance in places ranging from Africa to Afghanistan, its participation in global health projects, its support of the United Nations, its naval participation in anti-piracy operations, and its research and development on energy efficiency place it at the forefront in dealing with the new transnational challenges.
Hence, the two parties: the one that sees its economic future riding on the great transnational transformations of global capitalism; the other, desperately seeking to reinforce frontiers so as to reunite, once again, imagined identity space with real decision space.
The continuing failure of the post-colonial state, the threat posed by transnational armed groups, and the weakness of regional organizations obscure the nonchalance of major powers that now land troops with only a vague idea about what to do the morning after.
National governments are unlikely to cede significant control to transnational institutions, and harmonizing rules would not benefit societies with diverse needs and preferences.
The private sector, in particular, has the capacity and expertise to contribute substantially to international development efforts, through investments, loans, and even philanthropic resources provided by transnational corporations, financial institutions, foundations, and other sources.
Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.
The continent will be disproportionally affected by climate change and transnational migration.
This puts China in a difficult position in relation to the so-called international system – the structures and rules created by the United States and others after the Second World War to check national sovereignty through a system of overlapping jurisdictions, transnational obligations, and fundamental rights.
Moreover, transnational connections in the information industry are close, as Western high-tech companies increasingly employ affiliates in Bangalore and Shanghai to provide real-time services.
China, the world’s biggest dam builder – with slightly more than half of the approximately 50,000 large dams on the planet – is rapidly accumulating leverage against its neighbors by undertaking massive hydro-engineering projects on transnational rivers.
Governments must study these activities and their consequences the same way they study transnational criminal or terrorist organizations.
Both sides need to engage in the vital enterprise of turning the border that separates them into a benign space of transnational development and stability.
The bottom chessboard includes transnational relations outside the control of governments – everything from drugs to infectious diseases to climate change to terrorism.
It also depends on the likely impact of an exit campaign on transnational solidarity.
In practice, this means developing a single pan-European policy agenda and forming a single transnational electoral vehicle that contests elections across Europe on the basis of that agenda.
The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, DiEM25, has already formulated such an agenda, a Green New Deal for Europe, and has formed such a transnational electoral formation, the European Spring.
My candidacy symbolizes the end of the north-south divide and epitomizes the new transnational politics that is uniquely capable of saving European democracy, German democracy, and, indeed, Greek, Italian, and French democracy.
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