Borders among activists : international NGOs in the United States, Britain, and France / Sarah S. Stroup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stroup, Sarah S. (Sarah Snip), 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations--United States.

Non-governmental organizations.

Non-governmental organizations--Great Britain.

Non-governmental organizations--France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Borders among Activists, Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world-international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)-organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy, and deliver services.Stroup offers detailed profiles of these "varieties of activism" in the United States, Britain, and France. These three countries are the most popular bases for INGOs, but each provides a very different environment for charitable organizations due to differences in legal regulations, political opportunities, resources, and patterns of social networks. Stroup's comparisons of leading American, British, and French INGOs-Care, Oxfam, Médicins sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and FIDH-reveal strong national patterns in INGO practices, including advocacy, fund-raising, and professionalization. These differences are quite pronounced among INGOs in the humanitarian relief sector, and are observable, though less marked, among human rights INGOs.Stroup finds that national origin helps account for variation in the "transnational advocacy networks" that have received so much attention in international relations. For practitioners, national origin offers an alternative explanation for the frequently lamented failures of INGOs in the field: INGOs are not inherently dysfunctional, but instead remain disconnected because of their strong roots in very different national environments.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Where Have All the Borders Gone?

1. Varieties of Activism in Three Countries

2. Humanitarian INGOs

3. Human Rights INGOs

4. Reconciling Global and Local

Appendix A: Case Selection

Appendix B: Interviews Conducted

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references ([p. 225] - 239) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801464720

0801464722

9780801464256

0801464250

OCLC:

794306980