The Idea of Global Civil Society

This book evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our analysis an understanding of global civil society, particularly if we also wish to raise ethical questions about the changing political and institutional practices of transnational governance. Bridging the normative concerns of political theorists with the historical and institutional focus of scholars of international relations and international political economy, this book will be of broad interest to students and researchers concerned with international relations, civil society, global governance and ethics.

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Table of contents : Preface - Craig Murphy
1. The Idea(1) of global civil society Michael Kenny and Randall Germain
Contesting Global Civil Society
2. Ideological contestation, trans-national civil society, and global politics Andrew Gamble and Michael Kenny
3. Intimations of a Gramscian approach to global civil society Anne Showstack Sassoon
4. Late modern civil society Nicholas Onuf
Citizenship and Global Civil Society
5. Media, cultural citizenship, and the global public sphere Nick Stevenson
6. Subjects, citizens or pilgrims? Citizenship and civil society in a global context Kimberley Hutchings
7. Situating global citizenship Nigel Dower
8. Global civil society, civilians and citizens Mervyn Frost
Governance and Global Civil Society
9. Global civil society and global governmentality Louise Amoore and Paul Langley
10. The management of global civil society: the WTO's engagement with NGOs Rorden Wilkinson
11. Global modalities of financial governance: the public sphere and civil society Randall Germain
Conclusion
12.Understanding global civil society: contestation, citizenship, governance Randall Germain and Michael Kenny