Global Civil Society 2012

1. Front Matter

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2. Looking Back, Thinking Forward

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Global Civil Society Yearbook: Lessons and Insights 2001–2011

      • Helmut Anheier, Mary Kaldor, Marlies Glasius

      Pages 2-26

   3. ‘Global Civil Society’ and the Internet 2012: Time to Update Our Perspective

      • Henrietta L. Moore, Sabine Selchow

      Pages 28-40

3. Democracy and Citizenship

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. The Arab Awakening: The Crisis of Dictatorship and Civil Society

      • Bernard Dreano

      Pages 42-53

   3. ‘Lost in Transformation’: The Crisis of Democracy and Civil Society

      • Ferenc Miszlivetz

      Pages 54-70

   4. Passionate Publics in Mediated Civil Society

      • Bolette Blaagaard

      Pages 72-85

4. Peace and Justice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. A Decade of the War on Terror and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

      • Mary Kaldor

      Pages 88-109

   3. Pro-Roma Global Civil Society: Acting for, with or Instead of Roma?

      • Angéla Kóczé, Márton Rövid

      Pages 110-122

   4. Civil Society and Cluster Munitions: Building Blocks of a Global Campaign

      • Thomas Nash

      Pages 124-141

5. Economy and Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Global Civil Society and the Rise of the Civil Economy

      • Robin Murray

      Pages 144-164

   3. A Decade of World Social Forums: Internationalisation without Institutionalisation?

      • Geoffrey Pleyers

      Pages 166-181

6. Records

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Bordering on the Unknown: Approaches to Global Civil Society Data

      • Sally Stares, Sean Deel, Jill Timms

      Pages 184-202

   3. Chronology of Global Civil Society Events

      • Jill Timms

      Pages 204-217

7. Back Matter

   Pages 218-224

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Activists and academics look back over ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed – or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating.

• Citizenship
• democracy
• dictatorship
• economy
• Institution
• Internet
• transformation
• development theory

"The perspective with which Kaldor and her collaborators have approached global civil society over the last decade has not only captured an essential question of our times, but has confronted issues that will only become more central to world society throughout the twenty-first century." - LSE Review of Books

• London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Mary Kaldor

• University of Cambridge, UK

  Henrietta L. Moore

• Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE), UK

  Sabine Selchow

• Methodology Institute at LSE, UK

  Sabine Selchow

HELMUT ANHEIER Dean and Professor of Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany BOLETTE B. BLAAGAARD Research Fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City University London, UK SEAN DEEL Researcher in the Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK BERNARD DREANO Member of the Centre d'études et d'initiatives de solidarité internationale (CEDETIM), France, and of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (HCA), Finland MARLIES GLASIUS Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ANGÉLA KÓCZÉ Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnic and Minority Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences FERENC MISZLIVETZ Director of the Institute for Social and European Studies, University of West Hungary, Scientific Advisor of the Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Academic Director of the Institute for Global and European Integration Studies,Corvinus University, Hungary ROBIN MURRAY Senior Visiting Fellow in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK THOMAS NASH Founding partner of Article 36 GEOFFREY PLEYERS FNRS researcher at the University of Louvain, Belgium MÁRTON RÖVID Ph.D candidate at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Hungary SALLY STARES Research Fellow in the Methodology Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JILL TIMMS Ph.D candidate in the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

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