The Transnational Condition Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe [Hardcover]

During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational protest is obviously more salient in a world of international corporations and global political interaction, compounded by electronic communication and cheap travel. The transnational condition permeates all aspects of protest organization and dynamics  from individual biographies to activist networks to cycles of contention. The contributors offer insight into this multifaceted condition by combining rich empirical evidence with reflections on the problems of transnational research.

Overall, this compendium is a welcome addition to the academic debate on social protest movements. The common thread appears to be the need to view social protest by seeing the correlation between national and international efforts and almost all authors acknowledge the need for further researchand new methodological approaches. The volume is therefore a useful source for scholars who study current day social protest movements.? The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

This volume certainly develops our understanding of social movement research in terms of what questions we should be asking and where we ought to seek the answers& the book will be of interest to researchers on social and political movements, as well as those working on transnational mobilization and institutions.? Ethnopolitics

&a valuable development of the academic literature on social movements and transnationalism& In summary, Simon Teune has gathered a selection of studies that contribute positively to the study of protest and transnationalism in Europe. The conceptual and empirical analyses are thorough and will be appreciated by researchers, sl>