Publisher's Synopsis
As evidenced by the immense global mobilization against the war on Iraq, which arguably influenced the actions of government leaders, global civil society is now established as a major player on the international stage. The Global Civil Society Yearbook is the standard work on the topic, indispensable for social scientists and activists working on globalization from below. Global Civil Society 2003 opens with a chapter on the present state of global civil society, discussing the mushrooming of Social Forums over the last year, and the growth of a global anti-war movement. It contains contributions from Ulrich Beck and Martin Shaw on the need to globalize our thinking, a chapter by Meghnad Desai and Yahia Said on trade and the anti-capitalist movement, and a chapter by Mary Kaldor and Diego Muro-Ruiz tackling the 'dark side' of global civil society: religious and nationalist militant groups. Further chapters discuss global civil society efforts to outlaw biological and chemical weapons; the campaign to combat violence against women; transnational peasants' movements; and the legal environment for global civil society.;As usual, Global Civil Society 2003 closes with a Records section containing a wealth of data on globalization, the rule of law, the number of international NGOs, values and attitudes, political mobilisation, parallel summits and the chronology of global civil society events. This year's methodological chapter explores the potential of GIS techniques for mapping global civil society. Finally, there are short updates on chapters from Global Civil Society 2001 and Global Civil Society 2002. With this third Yearbook, the information on campaigns, conferences, demonstrations, NGOs, and networks has reached such a critical mass that the series can now be considered as an ever-growing encyclopedia on global civil society.