ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the growth of transnationalism presents a dilemma for the political authorities. Through collaboration with other governments facing identical dilemmas, the political authorities should be able to successfully minimize the undesired effects and maximize the beneficial aspects of transnationalism. Few political regimes are willing to accept the restraints necessary to completely avoid undesirable outcomes. Several analysts have suggested the usefulness of governmental elite networks, transgovernmental relations and multi-bureaucratic decision-processes as techniques of promoting policy coordination in the face of insistence on governmental autonomy. The national leadership, politicians, and bureaucrats, would need to engage in continuous interactions across a wide field of policy areas. Governments are eager to work collectively to reduce the undesired external impacts on their societies as long as this collaboration does not seriously hamper their own domestic management efforts. Much of the literature on transnationalism deals with the American situation and the American need for management techniques.
