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Die Untersuchung der palästinensischen gesellschaftlichen Vereinigungen in den besetzten Gebieten unter dem Aspekt des Verhältnisses zueinander und zur PLO als "parastaatlichem" Gebilde sowie der Rolle des Islams führt zu der Einschätzung, daß sie in ihrer Gesamtheit als "civil society" das Fundament eines künftigen palästinensischen Staates bilden könnten. (DÜI-Hns)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Maps of Central Asia -- Introduction / M. Holt Ruffin -- Civil Society in Central Asia / S. Frederick Starr -- The Legal Regulation of NGOs: Central Asia at a Crossroads / Scott Horton and Alla Kazakina -- Freedom of Association and the Question of Its Realization in Kazakhstan / Evgeny A. Zhovtis -- Government and Nonprofit Sector Relations in then Kyrgyz Republic / Erkinbek Kasybekov -- Environmental NGOs and the Development of Civil Society in Cental Asia / Kate Watters -- Kolkhoz and Civil Society in the Independent States of Central Asia / Olivier Roy -- Prospects for Development of an Independent Media in Kazakhstan / Oleg Katsiev -- Can Uzbekistan Build Democracy and Civil Society? / Abdumannob Polat -- Civil Society and Identity in Uzbekistan: The Emergent Role of Islam / Reuel Hanks -- Islam and Tajikistan's Human and Ecological Crisis / Aziz Niyazi -- Women's NGOs in Cental Asia's Evolving Societies / Ula Ikramova and Kathryn McConnell -- The Real Work: Sustaining NGO Growth in Central Asia / Jay Cooper -- Organizations -- Kazakhstan -- Kyrgyzstan -- Tajikistan -- Turkmenistan -- Uzbekistan -- Online Resources -- E-mail Lists -- Web sites -- Internet Access Centers in Central Asia -- Appendices -- About the Authors -- Glossary.

Just as domestic civil society is widely regarded as serving the greater common good of a national democratic political community, global civil society is also promoted as a vehicle through which a host of humanity's ills may be remedied. This article argues that the pinning of such high hopes on global civil society is mistaken, for its proponents have failed to recognise that global civil society is insufficiently analogous to domestic civil society for it to be a similarly positive force. At the national level, civil society functions in a balanced interdependence with the state. At the global level there is no equivalent of the state to provide the necessary scrutiny and regulation that at the national level prevents constituents of domestic civil society from committing injustices.

Just as domestic civil society is widely regarded as serving the greater common good of a national democratic political community, global civil society is also promoted as a vehicle through which a host of humanity's ills may be remedied. This article argues that the pinning of such high hopes on global civil society is mistaken, for its proponents have failed to recognise that global civil society is insufficiently analogous to domestic civil society for it to be a similarly positive force. At the national level, civil society functions in a balanced interdependence with the state. At the global level there is no equivalent of the state to provide the necessary scrutiny and regulation that at the national level prevents constituents of domestic civil society from committing injustices.

Um die Beziehungen zwischen Konfuzianismus und Civil Society zu analysieren, wird in dem Beitrag zunächst einmal auf begriffliche Schwierigkeiten hingewiesen: Den Begriff "Civil Society" gibt es im Chinesischen nicht; ebensowenig können chinesische Begriffe einfach mit "bürgerlich" übersetzt werden. Es wird herausgearbeitet, in welchen konfuzianischen Elementen zivile Tugenden auftauchen bzw. enthalten sind. Dabei wird festgestellt, daß in den Sprüchen des Konfuzius implizit eine Pyramide staatlicher Macht unterstellt wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die konfuzianische Denkweise erläutert. Es wird gezeigt, daß die Haltung des Konfuzius fast ausnahmslos die einer Sympathie mit dem einfachen Volk ist, während er dem Herrscher gegenüber als Mahner auftritt. Die Verantwortung für die Welt wird dem Herrscher zugeschrieben. Der zentrale konfuzianische Begriff der Selbstkultivierung wird beschrieben. Bei der Analyse der Civil Society im China von heute wird festgestellt, daß etwas von der chinesischen Zivilität und Solidarität die Katastrophen der Befreiung und der Kulturrevolution überdauert hat. (ICA)

The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China

The European Union (EU) has clearly made a difference for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs have been crucial in the promotion of funding and access opportunities, but they have been proven to have little capacity to create CSOs from scratch or to use CSOs too bluntly for their own purposes. This book brings Europeanization studies closer to society by providing a sociologically-informed analysis, which challenges current assumptions and highlights neglected areas of study. It also addresses many of the methodological challenges in the empirical study of the Europeanization of interest groups, including a comparative analysis over a long time period. The book provides a comparison across three countries, France, UK and Spain, and two policy sectors, international solidarity and social CSOs.

SOUTH AFRICA IS APPROACHING THE BEGINNING OF ITS THIRD YEAR OF DEMOCRATIC RULE. THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES SOME QUESTIONS: 1) WHAT KINDS OF STRAINS WILL THE COUNTRY'S INHERITED SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS PLACE ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEM? 2) TO WHAT EXTENT WILL THE NATION'S CIVIL SOCIETY BE ABLE TO MEET THE NUMEROUS CHALLENGES IT NOW FACES AND HELP INSTITUTIONALIZE THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REGIME? IT NOTES THAT IF SOUTH AFRICA CAN MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IT STANDS AN EXCELLENT CHANCE OF SEEING ITS NEW REGIME TAKE ROOT AND FLOURISH.

The annual Global Civil Society Yearbooks provide an indispensable guide to global civil society or civic participation and action around the world. The Yearbook includes commissioned contributions from leading commentators across the social sciences on the latest issues and developments, explores and presents the latest approaches to measuring and analyzing global civil society and provides a chronology of key global civil society events in the year. The Global Civil Society Yearbook remains the standard work on all aspects of contemporary global civil society for activists, practitioners, st