ABSTRACT
Across the preceding chapters in Part II of this volume, we have seen instances in which comparative research has addressed how political processes and events at the domestic level have significant implications for politics at the international level, and we have seen many studies include significant variables drawn from attention to state behaviour, state interaction, and other factors at the international level that have an impact on domestic political developments. Studies on economic development and democracy often take into account the mediating effects of the structural division of labour in the world economy (Burkhart and Lewis-Beck 1994; Li and Reuveny 2003; Foweraker and Landman 2004) and the impact of constellations of power in the international sphere on socio-political developments at the domestic level (Rueschemeyer et al. 1992). Studies of violent political protest and social revolutions pay attention to external factors that may weaken states and contribute to their collapse (Skocpol 1979; Wickham-Crowley 1993), while policy makers worry about the potential for civil strife to move beyond borders and threaten international stability (Gleditsch et al. 2008). New research on social movements and non-violent social protest has turned its attention to the transnational nature of mobilization, for example, against the forces of globalization, for the promotion and protection of human rights, and in a response to international events (e.g. Risse et al. 1999, 2013; Imig and Tarrow 2001; Bob 2005; Inglehart and Welzel 2005; Tarrow 2005).
