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In this introduction, the editors look at transnational actors from a historical perspective, in order to set an analytical framework for this collection. From the 1860s onwards, transnational actors like the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as well as neutral nations gained increasing global importance in their role in caring for prisoners in war. This chapter illustrates how their transnational connections and practices evolved in the twentieth century, as the phenomenon of mass captivity was coupled with strong international organisations, networks and new means of communications. Wars were thereby catalysts for new transnational transfers, flows and exchanges, often in the context of an ever-growing humanitarianism. |
