Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs

Global Networks is a path-breaking journal devoted to the social scientific understanding of globalization and transnationalism.

In the 21^st century emerging transnational actors will play an ever more important role in both global and local affairs. They represent the human face of globalization. Such actors enter into the spaces opened up by the intersection of corporate capital and the new information, communication and transportation technologies.

A feature of globe-spanning interactions of all kinds is the building and sustaining of social, economic, political and cultural networks. These global networks are constituted by dynamic and often flexible connections between individuals, family-members, firms, social groups, and organisations. They transcend territorial borders, rupturing the degrees of cultural and economic self-sufficiency once experienced by nations and communities.

Such transnational processes, from below as well as above, present profound challenges and opportunities to states, corporations, cities and territorial-based actors. They also enable the imagination and construction of innovative forms of human solidarity and citizenship. Embedded in global networks, some actors resist globalization, others search for alternatives, both legal and criminal. Some places and communities are empowered, others are switched off.

Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs will publish high-quality, internationally refereed articles that seek to make sense of these transformative processes. Global in coverage and outlook, the journal will be indispensable to informed and critical thinkers everywhere.

Issue 1 due January 2001 (4 issues per year)

Papers welcome for volume one, see:

Notes for Contributors/Submissions

Editors: Alisdair Rogers (Oxford University, UK), Robin Cohen (Warwick University, UK) and Steve Vertovec (Oxford University, UK).

Regional Editors:

North America and Caribbean, Nancy Foner (State University of New York, USA)
Latin America, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo (University of California Davis, USA)
Asia, Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore)
Europe, Marco Martiniello (University of Liège, Belgium)
Africa, Jimi Adesina (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

Associate Editors: Ayse Çaglar (Free University Berlin, Germany), Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington, USA), Stephen Calleya (Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, Malta), Robert C. Smith (Columbia University, USA).

Editorial Board: John Agnew, Manuel Castells, Stephen Castles, Jeff Crisp, Peter Dicken, Daniel Friedman, Frank Gregory, Ulf Hannerz, David Held, Jeffrey Henderson, Richard Higgott, Bruce Hoffman, Ravindra K. Jain, Mark Juergensmeyer, Paul Kennedy, David Ley, Patricia Mohammed, Richard O’Brien , Alejandro Portes, Kevin Robins, Mari Sako, Leslie Sklair, Michael Peter Smith, Andreas Wimmer, Steve Woolgar

Book Review Editor: Rainer Elk-Anders (University of Warwick)

Address for Further Details and Offers of Papers: The Editor, Global Networks, ISCA, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE Tel: +44 (0)1865 274689, Fax: +44 (0)1865 274718 [global.networks@keb.ox.ac.uk]

Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF

ISSN 1470-2266