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.

Autorentext
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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Introduction; J.Howell Global Norms, Domestic Politics: Children's Rights and Civil Society in Argentina; J.Grugel  & E.Peruzzotti Post-9/11 Global Security Regime and Non-governmental Public Action; J.Howell NGO Coalitions and the Global Access to Medicines Campaign: the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Developing Countries; D.Matthews The Influence of Transnational Non-governmental Public Actors on Policy Processes and Policy Outcomes: Rethinking North-south Relations; R.Crook NGOs, the State and 'Cultural Values': Imagining the Global in Sri Lanka; H.Amarasuriya  & J.Spencer Alternative Media and Public Action: How Online Media Movements (Don't) Use Resources; A.Spicer North-South Environmentalisms: Friends of the Earth International (FOEI); B.Doherty  & T.Doyle Global Policy and the Public Action of Private Philanthropy: the Open Society Foundation; D.Stone