1001GIR Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Money Laundering, Global Commons, Complex Interdependence
4 May 2018
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L6. Transnational Security and Terrorism
Transnational Issues
• Transnational
o The movement of objects or ideas across state borders when one or both parties to the
transaction are not states or agents of a state
• May apply to events, ideas, individuals, businesses, non-government
organisations, criminal/terrorist networks, etc.
o Associated first with 'complex interdependence' in the 1970s
o Also associated with the globalisation process from the 1980s to present
• Business and finance
• Global governance and regulation
• Information and communications technologies
• Aid and development
• Ideas and social movements
o Religion and spirituality
o Identity and solidarity
• Women's movements, same-sex and LGBT rights, rights of indigenous peoples,
etc.
o Anti-globalisation, global justice movements, etc.
o Environmentalism
Transnational Challenges
• Political
o Revolutionary, national liberation, separatist, independence movements
o Terrorism
• People movements and refugees
• Environment and global commons
o Population and demographics
o Global warming
o Biodiversity
o Food security and access to water
o Resource and energy security
• Infectious diseases
o HIV/Aids, SARS, 'Bird Flu', Ebola, etc.
• Crime
o Money laundering and financing
o People, drug and weapons trafficking
o Piracy
Transnational Actors
• Transnational Corporations (TNCs)
o Sometimes called Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
• Non-Government Organisations (NGOs)
o Based in a single country, but involved in transnational activities
• International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs)
• Religious organisations and churches
• Social movements
• Political movements
• Insurgents, guerrilla fighters
• Criminals
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Document Summary
Information and communications technologies: religion and spirituality. Identity and solidarity: women"s movements, same-sex and lgbt rights, rights of indigenous peoples, etc, anti-globalisation, global justice movements, etc, environmentalism. Transnational challenges: political, revolutionary, national liberation, separatist, independence movements, terrorism, people movements and refugees, environment and global commons, population and demographics, global warming, biodiversity, food security and access to water, resource and energy security. Infectious diseases: hiv/aids, sars, "bird flu", ebola, etc, crime, money laundering and financing, people, drug and weapons trafficking, piracy. Transnational actors: transnational corporations (tncs, sometimes called multinational corporations (mncs, non-government organisations (ngos, based in a single country, but involved in transnational activities. Social movements: religious organisations and churches, political movements, criminals. Transnational security: terrorism: terrorism: contested and problematic concept, a traditional definition. Intent to further political ends by using violence to create a climate of fear, apprehension and uncertainty.
