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Constructing Global Civil Society

Author : D. Chandler

Publisher : Springer

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 40,71 MB

Release : 2004-09-13

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0230005845

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Global Civil Society is a crucial concept in International Relations today, used as both a description of new mechanisms of non-state actor and NGO engagement in international policy-making and as a normative political project of international change. David Chandler critically investigates the claims made by the advocates of global civil society, analyzing the limits of the concept as a way of describing actual policy processes and the political dynamics behind the search for an international source of collective ethical values and social change.



Constructing Global Civil Society

Author : David Chandler

Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 44,69 MB

Release : 2004-11-27

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9781403913227

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Chandler investigates the claims made by the advocates of global civil society, analyzing the limits of the concept as a way of describing actual policy processes & the political dynamics behind the search for an international source of collective ethical values & social change.



Creating a Better World

Author : Rupert Taylor

Publisher : Kumarian Press

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 50,24 MB

Release : 2004

Category : History

ISBN : 1565491882

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* Takes an interdisciplinary approach to interpreting global civil society * Contributors are some of the leading theoreticians in the field * A sound handbook for activism The term "global civil society" has become a catchphrase of our times. But efforts to define and interpret what global civil society actually is have led to ambiguity and dispute. This major work of scholarship and advocacy pierces through the generalizations and debates. It presents cogent examples of groups within civil society--from the Seattle and Genoa protesters to transnational grassroots movements, such as Slum/Shack Dwellers International--that are creatively meeting the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly interconnected world. The contributors offer clarity and the hope that another world is possible--one in which civil society’s global networks can effectively create a free, fair, and just global order. Scholars, students, and anyone interested in understanding new forces influencing contemporary world politics will want to have this book on their shelves.



Building a Transnational Civil Society

Author : Ingo K. Richter

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 29,32 MB

Release : 2007-01-09

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9781403996947

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Since the end of the Cold War the growing integration of the world markets and the emergence of an international legal system have dramatically decreased the regulation capacities of the nation states. Building a Transnational Civil Society analyzes structural crises of globalization processes and demonstrates chances and limits of actors in transnational civil society and political movements - in short a new cosmopolitan internationalism. The areas of investigation are new economic developments, old and new social movements and the reality of wars and humanitarian intervention.



Global Civil Society

Author : Gideon Baker

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 227 pages

File Size : 27,61 MB

Release : 2004-11-23

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1134256868

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For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.



Partnerships in International Policy-Making

Author : Raffaele Marchetti

Publisher : Springer

Page : 323 pages

File Size : 10,81 MB

Release : 2016-10-26

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1349949388

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This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals. Multi-stakeholder initiatives, private-public partnership, sub-contracting, political alliances, hybrid coalitions, multi-sectoral networks, pluralist co-governance, and indeed foreign policy by proxy are all considered. Bringing together the most advanced scholarship, the book examines trade, environment, development, security, and human rights with reference to both EU and global institutional settings such as the WTO, UN Climate Summits, FAO, IFAD, ICC, UNHRC, UNSC, and at the EU level the DG FISMA, TRADE, CLIMA, DEVCO, HOME and ECHO. The book also studies the use of NGOs in the foreign policy of the EU, USA, and Russia. This changing politics and the polarized debate it has generated are explored in detail.



Civil Society and International Governance

Author : David Armstrong

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 49,99 MB

Release : 2010-11-23

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1136888934

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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most important - determinants of those political, economic and social developments and dynamics that shape the modern world. Many issues, including the environment, health, crime, drugs, migration and terrorism, can no longer be contained within national boundaries. As a result, it is not always possible to identify the loci for authority and legitimacy, and the role of governments has been called into question. Civil Society anf International Governance critically analyses the increasing impact of nongovernmental organisations and civil society on global and regional governance. Written from the standpoint of advocates of civil society and addressing the role of civil society in relation to the UN, the IMF, the G8 and the WTO, this volume assess the role of various non-state actors from three perspectives: theoretical aspects, civil society interaction with the European Union and civil society and regional governance outside Europe, specifically Africa, East Asia and the Middle East. It demonstrates that civil society’s role has been more complex than one defined in terms, essentially, of resistance and includes actual participation in governance as well as multi-facetted contributions to legitimising and democratising global and regional governance. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, international relations, civil society, sociology, European politics and global governance.





Global Civil Society in International Lawmaking and Global Governance

Author : Barbara Woodward

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 631 pages

File Size : 35,58 MB

Release : 2010-05-17

Category : Law

ISBN : 9004185828

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Drawing upon ‘global governance,’ ‘global civil society’ (GCS) and ‘international lawmaking’ scholarship and presenting studies of GCS practice in international lawmaking processes, including treaty-making, conferences, international organisations and adjudicatory mechanisms, this book comprehensively re-evaluates GCS’s role in public international lawmaking.



NGOs, Civil Society and Structural Changes

Author : Acar Kutay

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 10,84 MB

Release : 2021-06-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 303071862X

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This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes—including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Such massive structural changes greatly problematize the older liberal view of a simple split between state and civil society actors which nonetheless remains dominant in much of social and political sciences. The author argues that the naturalist and behaviorist approaches to civil society occlude the fact that citizens increasingly live within a particular and highly contestable way of imagining and constructing civil society. The book shows that changes in how civil society is conceptualized and organized around new practices, might mark radically new conceptions of the state that are ideologically neo-liberal and subtle in the ways they disempower ordinary citizens.