The Rise of Global Civil Society

by Eberly, Don

• ISBN13: 9781594032141
• ISBN10: 1594032149
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Encounter Books

Summary

The Rise of Global Civil Society is a report card on freedom. Eberly argues that the progress of freedom depends critically on the creation of civic cultures that promote democratic values. He shows that the key to spreading workable democracy lies in finding ways to harness the best of both the public and private sectors, relying on markets and on civil society to enlist the poor as partners in their own development.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Poverty Reduction in the Age of Globalization	p. vii
Compassion: America's Most Consequential Export	p. 1
The Core Elements of Community and Nation Building: The American Debate	p. 29
The Great Foreign Aid Debate: Stingy or Generous?	p. 46
From Aid Bureaucracy to Civil Society: Participation and Partnership	p. 74
Wealth, Poverty, and the Rise of Corporate Citizenship	p. 97
Microenterprise: Tapping Native Capability at the Bottom of the Pyramid	p. 122
The Great Tsunami of 2004 and America's Generosity	p. 145
Conflict or Collaboration? Religion and Democratic Civil Society	p. 158
Understanding Anti-Americanism	p. 186
Civil Society and Nation Building: Prospects for Democratization	p. 214
Conflict and Reconciliation in the Context of Nation Building	p. 242
Habits of the Heart: The Case for a Global Civic Culture	p. 277
A Roadmap for Bottom-Up Nation Building in the Twenty-first Century	p. 290
Acknowledgments	p. 303
Notes	p. 307
Index	p. 325
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