Challenging Global Finance

Friesen demonstrates how transnational CSOs and NGOs can influence the context in which international political decisions are made. She shows how, by reframing the issues, the transnational campaign for the cancellation of third world debt altered the dominant discourse, shifted the agenda and thereby shaped political outcomes.

Autorentext
ELIZABETH FRIESEN Lecturer in Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research explores the role of social and normative forces in supporting, as well as contesting, the rules and practices which govern international economic relations.

Inhalt
Introduction Power and Resistance Transnational Civil Society and the Campaign for the Cancellation of Third World Debt The World Economic Forum and the Campaign for the Cancellation of Third World Debt Conclusion