Democracy at Large: NGOs, Political Foundations, Think Tanks and International Organizations [Paperback]

An analysis of the transnationalization of politics in several societies concerned by programs of democracy promotion, the contributors to this book seek to understand how these new global norms and programs create forms of appropriation and resistance at the local level.TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Democracy Promotion and the Transnationalization of Politics: Perspectives from Below Boris P?tric and Giorgio Blundo (EHESS, Marseille) 1: From Advocacy to Political Engagement State, NGOs and 'Good Governance' Policies in Senegal Giorgio Blundo (EHESS, Marseille) 2: Electoral Observation and NGO Coalitions in Kyrgyzstan Boris P?tric 3: Think Tanks: Actors in The Transition to Global Politics: A Bulgarian Case Study Dostena Anguelova-Lavergne (EHESS, Paris) 4: The Question of Presumed Political Prisoners in Azerba?djan : Conditionalities of The Council of Europe Raphaelle Mathey (postdoctoral fellow, EHESS, Paris) 5: Participating Decentralization in Bolivia : The Geneaology of An Institutional Transplant David Recondo (Sciences Po, Paris) 6: Democracy Promotion, Local Participation and Transnational Governmentality in Afghanistan Alessandro Monsutti (IHEID, Geneva) 7: NGOs and The State: Clash or Class? Circulating Elites of 'Good Governance' in Serbia Theodora Vetta (PhD student, EHESS, Paris) 8: Multiple Sovereignty and Trans-nationalism in A Nation State: Aga Khan Development Network in Hunza, Pakistan Shafqat Hussain (Trinity College) 9: Jakarta's Spring, Democracy-building, Organizations and The Renaissance of Indonesian Multipartism Romain Bertrand (sciences po, CERI) 10: Nigeria, 'Democrazy' and The German Political Foundations Marc Antoine P?rouse de Montclos (Institut de Recherche pour le d?veloppement) 11: Cuba's Democratic transition: in search of the event Dejan Dimitrijevic (Nice University, France)

Petric and his colleagues trace the imbrications of 'transnational civil society' with local power structures and traditions, showing how NGOs' verlÓ6