Reply to Bogdan Iancu’s Verfassungsblog Review of 'Transnational Networks and Elite Self-Empowerment: The Making of the Judiciary in Contemporary Europe and Beyond' by Cristina E. Parau (OUP, 2018)

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina E. Parau
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Networks

Black in English: Race, Migration, and National Belonging in Postcolonial Italy

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorgia García-Peña
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Cultural Texts

Building on the growing body of scholarship on comparative race and ethnicity, this article considers how immigrants of color and their descendants interpret, translate, and deploy politicized ethno-racial terms (Black, Latinx) to confront racism in contemporary Italy. Through the analysis of cultural texts, including interviews, speeches, and a novel, I argue that terms, ideologies, and racial processes have become both local and global as immigrants and new citizens build transnational networks of contestation from which to confront the violence of coloniality and exploitation that led them to migrate while asserting belonging in the nations in which they reside. 

Honor Among Thieves: Understanding Rhetorical and Material Cooperation Among Violent Nonstate Actors

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Blair ◽  
Erica Chenoweth ◽  
Michael C. Horowitz ◽  
Evan Perkoski ◽  
Philip B.K. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Community Monitoring ◽  
The Face

Abstract Cooperation among militant organizations contributes to capability but also presents security risks. This is particularly the case when organizations face substantial repression from the state. As a consequence, for cooperation to emerge and persist when it is most valuable, militant groups must have means of committing to cooperation even when the incentives to defect are high. We posit that shared ideology plays this role by providing community monitoring, authority structures, trust, and transnational networks. We test this theory using new, expansive, time-series data on relationships between militant organizations from 1950 to 2016, which we introduce here. We find that when groups share an ideology, and especially a religion, they are more likely to sustain material cooperation in the face of state repression. These findings contextualize and expand upon research demonstrating that connections between violent nonstate actors strongly shape their tactical and strategic behavior.

Historical revisit: Mythistory and the making of Ireland: Alice Stopford Green's undoing

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (166) ◽  
pp. 349-373
Author(s):  
Angus Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
United Front ◽  
Medieval Ireland ◽  
Historical Practice

AbstractThe publication in 1908 of The making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600 by the London-based Irish historian, Alice Stopford Green, provoked a controversy that reveals much about the deepening political tensions at the heart of historical practice in the decade before 1916. Stopford Green took a deliberately controversial approach to the rewriting of medieval Ireland that triggered a bombardment of both positive and negative reactions. Supporters of Irish home rule applauded the work for its innovative analysis and contemporary relevance. But the book elicited a flurry of exasperation from a united front of ‘history men’, who dismissed Stopford Green and her work as ‘political’ and largely fictitious. Anticipating the reaction from a profession that was predominantly sympathetic to a unionist interpretation, Stopford Green had a well-prepared plan that harnessed both her gender and her transnational networks of influence to maximise the dissemination of her radical reimagining of the late medieval Gaelic world. By understanding these deeper strategies of defiance, Alice Stopford Green's history might be reclaimed as a key intervention in the structuring of both Ireland's national tradition and collective consciousness in preparation for independence.

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