- the policy or practice of engagement with other countries or their people in a way that rejects or goes beyond purely national interests:Cooperation between states and the sharing of responsibilities over watercourses is now driving a new transnationalism.
- the fact of having more than one national identity or ethnic culture as a result of movement between countries:Migrant transnationalism creates overlapping memberships between communities that are territorially separated.
- the use, in the arts, of forms, themes, styles, etc., that combine features of different national or ethnic cultures:Through a process that led to the idea of transnationalism in music, Punjabi music in England was made up of elements from both Punjabi folk music and British popular music.
