ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the phenomenon of transnational political mobilisation by non-state actors and the emergence of global political movements. It argues that the use of terrorism and other forms of violence is best understood as a violent component of broader political movements. What are the impacts of globalisation, broadly defined, on state security interests? The chapter addresses this question by focusing on one particular set of activities that is facilitated by globalisation: processes of transnational mobilisation, which are undertaken by non-state political entrepreneurs who operate across national boundaries. The globalisation of political mobilisation and contention, like the globalisation of economic production, transforms the interests of, and the international environment inhabited by, states. Transnational political movements that emanate from anarchic or weakly institutionalized environments develop organisational structures and strategies that are rooted in the political logic of anarchy. The impetus for migration can be economic or political or, often, a combination of both.
