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Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action

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Editors:
  1. Jude Howell

    1. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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Part of the book series: Non-Governmental Public Action (NGPA)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jude Howell
    Pages 1-17

  3. Global Norms, Domestic Politics: Children’s Rights and Civil Society in Argentina

    • Jean Grugel, Enrique Peruzzotti
    Pages 18-40

  4. Post-9/11 Global Security Regime and Non-Governmental Public Action

    • Jude Howell
    Pages 41-65

  5. NGO Coalitions and the Global Access to Medicines Campaign: The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Developing Countries

    • Duncan Matthews
    Pages 66-92

  6. The Influence of Transnational Non-Governmental Public Actors on Policy Processes and Policy Outcomes: Rethinking North-South Relations

    • Richard Crook
    Pages 93-114

  7. NGOs, the State and ‘Cultural Values’: Imagining the Global in Sri Lanka

    • Harini Amarasuriya, Jonathan Spencer
    Pages 115-132

  8. Alternative Media and Public Action: How Online Media Movements (Don’t) Use Resources

    • Andre Spicer
    Pages 133-152

  9. North-South Environmentalisms: Friends of the Earth International (FOEI)

    • Brian Doherty, Timothy Doyle
    Pages 153-177

  10. Global Policy and the Public Action of Private Philanthropy: The Open Society Foundation

    • Diane Stone
    Pages 178-199

  11. Conclusion

    • Jude Howell
    Pages 200-208

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-229
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About this book

Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research around the themes of environmentalism, security, children's rights and more, the contributors explore the complex politics amongst non-governmental public actors acting transnationally.

Editors and Affiliations

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Jude Howell

About the editor

HARINI AMARASURIYA Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social Studies, at the Open University of Sri Lanka RICHARD CROOK Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK BRIAN DOHERTY Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University, UK TIMOTHY DOYLE Professor of Politics and International Studies in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia and Chair of Politics and International Relations in SPIRE at Keele University, UK JEAN GRUGEL Professor of International Development in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK JUDE HOWELL Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK DUNCAN MATTHEWS Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London, UK ENRIQUE PERUZZOTTI Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Argentina JONATHAN SPENCER Professor of the Anthropology of South Asia at the University of Edinburgh, UK ANDRE SPICER Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Cass Business School, City University, London, UK DIANE STONE Winthrop Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Western Australia

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