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2010
In the 20 years from 1989 and the collapse of communism – the “end of history” for some – to 2009 much has changed in terms of how global civil society is viewed by commentators and by powerful political actors. While it was once the shining beacon of civility and progress it is now largely marginalized when not demonized as part of the “dark forces ...
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In the 20 years from 1989 and the collapse of communism – the “end of history” for some – to 2009 much has changed in terms of how global civil society is viewed by commentators and by powerful political actors. While it was once the shining beacon of civility and progress it is now largely marginalized when not demonized as part of the “dark forces ...
Anjula Garg Anil Sethi +35 more
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Foreign Affairs, 2003
John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on
G. John Ikenberry, John Keane
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John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on
G. John Ikenberry, John Keane
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Civil Society, Globalization, and Global Civil Society
Journal of Civil Society, 2008Recently, there has been much discussion of ‘global civil society’. This concept evidently draws on the more familiar civil society concept as related to national societies. What are the consequences of extending the concept in this way? Is global civil society simply civil society writ large, an extension to the international plane of basically the ...
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Role of the global civil society
The Lancet, 2005The concept of health promotion as a public-health policy is of surprisingly recent vintage. Emerging in the mid-1970s it was enthusiastically embraced at a 1978 conference sponsored by WHO and UNICEF at Alma Ata Kazakhstan. There almost all of the 134 nations represented reaffirmed health as a fundamental human right and endorsed an ambitious new ...
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Choice Reviews Online, 2004
For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity.
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For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity.
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European Journal of Sociology, 2007
There has been much discussion recently of “global civil society”. This concept evidently draws on the more familiar civil society concept as related to national societies. What are the consequences of extending the concept in this way? Is global civil society simply civil society writ large, an extension to the international plane of basically the ...
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There has been much discussion recently of “global civil society”. This concept evidently draws on the more familiar civil society concept as related to national societies. What are the consequences of extending the concept in this way? Is global civil society simply civil society writ large, an extension to the international plane of basically the ...
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