“Forgotten” Directions in the Study of Transnational Networks

The articles of this core present a number of innovative studies on transnational networks.1 Mainstream transnational network research has suffered from a number of theoretical biases which have prevented comprehensive study of the wide range of transnational activism of civil society organisations (CSOs). These biases concern, in particular, the notion of the ‘civilness’ of CSOs, their Western origin, their bourgeois nature, and their centre-left political orientation in terms of views on global politics.