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Indigenous civil society in Latin America: continuity and change -- Collective action and Indigenous civil society: theoretical frameworks and background -- Ecuador: decline or strategic realignment? -- Bolivia: participation or controlled inclusion? -- Chile: continuing resistance, emerging renaissance -- Indigenous civil society in comparative perspective -- Indigenous civil society in the 21st century: looking forward.

Die 1996 gestartete "African Information Society Initiative (AISI)" der ECA soll die Einführung und Nutzung moderner Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien fördern. Zusammen mit "Partnership for Information and Communication Technologies for Africa (PICTA)" unterstützt sie die Ausarbeitung nationaler E-Pläne, Pläne der "National Information and Communication Infrastructure (NICI)". Die Veröffentlichung gibt einen Überblick über den Stand und die wesentlichen Charakteristika der NICI-Pläne in ausgewählten Ländern; die Pläne von Ruanda und Senegal werden detailliert untersucht. (DÜI-Sbd)

How growing factionalism and loss of government legitimacy has led to various forms of resistance and nonviolent protest against Islamic norms.

At the 2002 Doha, Qatar, meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the trading powers extracted a consensus declaration on existing & new agreements, but especially on issues of investment, competition, government procurement, & trade facilitation areas traditional outside WTO jurisdiction. The trade powers' negotiating tactics with the South included threats, bribery, & nontransparency; they eventually broke down the South's initial fragile unity. The Doha declaration was a setback for developing countries & may well provide a basis for a united front against the trade powers in the future. Civil society's social movements need to put greater pressure on government attending the next WTO Ministerial. M. Pflum

The discipline of International Relations has been slow to assess the ICC and American opposition to it. This article uses the English School approach to assess the impact of the ICC on international society. The Rome Statute's definition of core crimes and its provision of an independent prosecutor help to legally constitute world society which transcends the society of states. The US opposes this development by arguing that international criminal justice should remain within the framework of international society. This is because the society of states accommodates a strong exceptionalist discourse and furthers America's particular interests in a way world society does not.

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The purpose of the article is to analyze the "story of the history of the emergence of European nations" as a historical narrative; the variability of "told stories" presented in the form of scientific sociological discourses reveals significant "ambiguities" (E. Balibar) in the representation of the nation, which provides material (objects) for subject thematization in scientific research. The task is to identify and determine the conditions for the possibility of a consistent representation of the nation and the principle of its structure. The second part of the analysis of the narrative history of the emergence and formation of European nations focuses on M. Foucault's statement that "a nation is one of the forms of civil society". It is revealed that the political community of the "nation" as an actor of the revolutionary struggle is defined in the "discourse of war"; the population as an object of "police care of the state» in the managerial paradigm is attributed the freedom of rational pursuit of particular interests, that is, the right to «public use of freedom" (I. Kant) within the framework defined in this way; the institution of such freedom is called "civil society"; the nation is presented as a form of unity (together with the state, on whose behalf the narrative of the nation is built), restraining the "centrifugal" of particular interests. It is concluded that the nation is presented as an intermediary between citizens and the political order of a liberal state.