Building a Transnational Civil Society Global Issues and Global Actors

by Richter, Ingo K.; Berking, Sabine; Müller-Schmid, Ralf

• ISBN13: 9781403996947
• ISBN10: 1403996946
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction * 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.Yevodkimov * 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 * Transnational Risks and Humanitarian Crises: The Blind Alley of UN Interventionism--D.Rieff * Humanitarian Trends--T.Vaux * Transnational Humanitarian Action in the Eastern DRC: State Building and Citizenship--D.Dijkzeul * Is Universality under Threat? Humanitarian Aid and Intervention in the 00s--A.Donini * The Role of the Military in a Changing World - CIMIC - Military Stepping Stones on the Road to Civil Society--G.J.Klose

Introduction * 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.Yevodkimov * 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 * Transnational Risks and Humanitarian Crises: The Blind Alley of UN Interventionism--D.Rieff * Humanitarian Trends--T.Vaux * Transnational Humanitarian Action in the Eastern DRC: State Building and Citizenship--D.Dijkzeul * Is Universality under Threat? Humanitarian Aid and Intervention in the 00s--A.Donini * The Role of the Military in a Changing World - CIMIC - Military Stepping Stones on the Road to Civil Society--G.J.Klose