Building a Transnational Civil Society: Global Issues and Global Actors

ISBN-13: 9781403996947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 268 str.

Ingo K. Richter; Sabine Berking; Ralf Muller-Schmid

Opis

Building a Transnational Civil Society analyzes the structural crises of globalization processes and demonstrates the opportunities for, and limitations of, actors in transnational civil society and political movements.

Spis treści

List of figures Foreward Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; I. Richter, S. Berking and R. Müller-Schmid PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF A TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY Transnational Risks: A New Challenge for Global Civil Society; S.George Corporate Power and Transnational Civil Society; B.Holzer The Governance of Transnational Debt: The Role of the IMF; S.Soederberg Sustainable Development of the Caspian Sea Energy Resources: The Role of Civil Society; M.A.Molchanov & Y.Yevdokimov A Dance of Donors and Dependent States: Dilemmas of Civil Society Actors in the Struggle for Accountability in India; S.Randeria PART II: NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS WITHIN THE TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY A Critique of Capitalism in the Era of Globalization - Old Wine in New Bottles?; D.Rucht Global Democratic Protest: The Chiapas Connection; T.Oleson 'Flirting with the Enemy' - Green Alliances in Global Environmental Governance; H.Bauer PART III: HUMANITARIANISM WITHIN A NEW WORLD ORDER Transnational Risks and Humanitarian Crises: The Blind Alley of UN Interventionism; D.Rieff Humanitarian Trends; T.Vaux The Role of the Military in a Changing World - CIMC: Military Stepping Stones on the Road to a Civil Society; G. Klose Is Universality under Threat? Humanitarian Aid and Intervention in the 00s; A.Donini Transnational Humanitarian Action in the Eastern DRC: State Building and Citizenship; D.Dijkzeul Index

O autorze

HARRY BAUER Researcher in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK DENNIS DIJKZEUL Professor of the Management of Humanitarian Crises, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany ANTONIO DONINI Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Famine Center (FIFC), Tufts University, USA SUSAN GEORGE Chair of the Planning Board, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Vice-President of the Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens (ATTAC), France BORIS HOLZER Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany MIKHAIL MOLCHANOV Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, St Thomas University, Canada GERHARD J. KLOSE Advisor to German military forces in Afghanistan, and former Chief of the Policy and Doctrine Branch on Civil Military Co-operation (CIMIC), Ministry of Defence, Bonn, Germany THOMAS OLESEN Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark SHALINI RANDERIA Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland DAVID RIEFF Senior Fellow at The World Policy Institute at the New School, New York, USA DIETER RUCHT Head of the Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilisation in Europe Research Group at the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin, Germany SUSANNE SOEDERBERG Associate Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Global Political Economy in the Development Studies Programme, Queen's University, Canada TONY VAUX Independent Consultant for Humanitarian and Conflict Policy issues; previously Global Emergencies Co-ordinator at Oxfam, UK, and is a former Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University, UK