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Private organisations in global politics / edited by Karsten Ronit and Volker Schneider.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pressure groups.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- International agencies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 214 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Private Organisation in Global Politics is a groundbreaking study which brings together a broad range of case-studies to examine the role and character of private organisations in the process of political globalization. Focusing on areas such as human rights organisations, the international women's movement and the combating of disease, the panel of expert contributors investigate the function of these in relation to governance in the globalizing world.
- Contents:
- Cover; Private Organizations in Global Politics; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Private organizations and their contribution to problem-solving in the global arena; 2 Representation of private organizations in the global diplomacy of economic policy-making; 3 Embedding global financial markets: Securitization and the emerging web of governance; 4 The good, the bad or the ugly?: Practices of global self-regulation among dyestuffs producers; 5 The Internet Society and its struggle for recognition and influence
- 6 Why do community-based AIDS organizations co-ordinate at the global level?; 7 The global social capital of human rights movements: A case study on Amnesty International; 8 The international women's movement as a private political actor between accommodation and change; 9 The policy roles of private research institutes in global politics; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-63486-2
- 1-280-10849-5
- 9786610108497
- 0-203-45739-0
- 0-203-25765-0
- 9780203457399
- OCLC:
- 84145634
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