Transnational Learning Networks Amongst Asian Muslims: An Introduction
Abstract
The students of transnational flows, including James Rosenau, have pertinently
highlighted the growing assertion of ‘sovereign free actors’ at the expense of
‘sovereign bound actors’ in what they call postinternational politics. Dealing
mostly with the end of the Cold War era, they have tended to focus on the
increasingly important role of not only the multinational firms but also of the
financial companies on newly globalized markets, and not only law-abiding but
also illicit traffickers (of drugs, arms etc.) which have prospered along with
increasingly more effective means of communication...