Building a Transnational Civil Society Global Issues and Global Actors [Hardcover]

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.List of figures Foreward Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; I. Richter, S. Berking and R. M?ller-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 IndexHARRY BAUER Researcher in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UKDENNIS DIJKZEUL Professor of the Management of Humanitarian Crises, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr Universit?t, Bochum, GermanyANTONIO DONINI Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Famine Center (FIFC), l“*