[DEBATE] : Flier for a new book : ‘Global Civil Society – More Or Less Democracy?’

[Jai Sen]

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Here’s the flier for a new book :
Mikael Löfgren & Håkan Thörn, 2007 – ‘Global Civil Society – More Or  
Less Democracy?’, special issue of Development Dialogue

This comes out of a seminar at the Nairobi Forum in January this  
year.  As you will see, it contains reflective essays both on global  
civil society more generally and also on the World Social Forum.

It’s free !  Order copies at the eddress given….  See the blurb at  
the end for conditions.
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Global Civil Society

– More Or Less Democracy?

Special issue of Development Dialogue

Mikael Löfgren & Håkan Thörn

(guest editors)



Table of contents



Preface

Henning Melber & Mats Rolén

1. Global civil society: more or less democracy? - Introduction

Mikael Löfgren & Håkan Thörn

2. Global civil society - opportunity or obstacle for democracy?

Jan A Scholte

3. International civil society and the challenge for global solidarity

Reinhart Kössler & Henning Melber

4. Bringing civility back in - reflections on global civil society

Helmut Anheier

5. The power of civility - some critical reflections on global civil  
society

Jai Sen

6. The political and its absence in the World Social Forum -  
implications for democracy

Teivo Teivainen

7. Linking below, across and against: World Social Forum

weaknesses, global governance gaps, and the global justice movement’s  
strategic dilemmas

Patrick Bond

8. Global civil society and democracy - the difficult way of an  
unavoidable task.  Visions from the South

Moema Miranda

9. Civil society and the nation-state - the case of Kenya

Steve Ouma

10. The challenges of global civil society for the “post-communist”  
world

Alla G. Glinchikova

11. The internal contradictions of global civil society - what impact  
on global

democracy?

Lorenzo Fioramonti

12. Corporate globalization, civil society, and postpolitical  
regulation - whither democracy?

Christina Garsten & Kerstin Jacobsson

13. Global civil society and de-/democratization - anti-apartheid, aid 
(s) politics and the World Social Forum

Håkan Thörn



The recent discourse on a global‚ international‚ or transnational  
civil society implies the emergence of a new global political space,  
distinguished from the world of international politics. What are  
implications for democracy of the increasing number and activities of  
NGOs, social movement organisations and private foundations globally?  
In what sense do (or can) global civil society contribute to further  
democratisation in an era of globalisation? In what sense can global  
civil society undermine democratisation processes?  These are key  
issues in this special issue of Development Dialogue, originating in  
a seminar held at the World Social Forum in Nairobi 2007.



development dialogue is addressed to individuals and organisations in  
both the South and the North. development dialogue is intended to  
provide a free forum for critical discussion of international  
development priorities for the 21st century.



development dialogue is published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.  
Free copies can be ordered, you will only pay postage cost.

web: www.dhf.uu.se



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