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This volume brings together some of the most recent scholarship on government and civil society. It examines the axis of the relationship between national governments and civil society organisations (NGOs) by highlighting commonalities as well as differences among four key regions in the world. Using the stability vs. instability framework, the book explores a range of pertinent issues, including human rights, development, foreign policy, state-building, regime change, governance frameworks, wars and civil liberties. It studies diverse situations, from those entailing comprehensive cooperation to those involving politically contentious and revolutionary activities.

Introduction : the debate on global order in a changing world / Sergio Fabbrini and Raffaele Marchetti -- 1. Our new and better world / Robert Jervis -- 2. Uncertain global governance / Bertrand Badie -- 3. Regionalism and global governance / Mario Telo -- 4. The role of ideas in global order / Raffaele Marchetti -- 5. The American perspective on global order / Walter Russell Mead -- 6. The Chinese perspective on global order / Shaun Breslin and Silvia Menegazzi -- 7. The European perspective on global order crisis / Vittorio E. Parsi -- 8. The Russian perspective on global order / Richard Sakwa -- 9. Western public opinions looking East / Linda Basile and Pierangelo Isernia -- 10. Dysfunctional domestic politics : dilemmas for the USA and the EU in a changing world / Sergio Fabbrini.

1. Political agency and subjectivity in the crisis of modernity / Debora Spini -- 2. Political agency between urban and transnational spaces / Clive Barnett -- 3. Judicial agency in the building of the European Union : a comparison of the European Court of Justice and the US Supreme Court / Derek Beach -- 4. Political agency in the economy : cooperatives, solidarity and territory in Euskadi and Aquitaine / Xabier Itcaina -- 5. Political agency and the responsibility paradox : multinationals and corporate social responsibility / Gerald F. Davis, Marina von Neumann Whitman and Mayer N. Zald -- 6. Exploring the conditions of possibility for political agency : rethinking politicization from a feminist perspective / Bice Maiguashca -- 7. Radical political agency : affective politics in the case of the Zapatistas of Chiapas / Susa McManus -- 8. Social infrastructures of political agency : the political mobilization of the women of the market in Lome / Charles Heller and Branwen Gruffydd Jones.

"This book explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. In light of the changing relationship between the state, the market and the society, it seeks to map both theoretically and empirically contemporary forms of global political agency. This book reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. More specifically, it empirically analyses a range of different forms of political agency and explores their significance for understanding and enacting global politics. Reflecting the efforts of scholars from a variety of disciplines from political theory and Sociology to Geography and International Relations, it brings into conversation a wide spectrum of theoretical approaches including Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism and historical institutionalism. The contributors compare a range of forms of political agency; exploring their significance for the theory and practice of global politics; and reflect on the tensions and synergies generated by recent efforts to conceptualise them.Demonstrating an innovative and interdisciplinary approach Contemporary Political Agency will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, sociology, political economy and political theory"--

"This book explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. In light of the changing relationship between the state, the market and the society, it seeks to map both theoretically and empirically contemporary forms of global political agency. This book reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. More specifically, it empirically analyses a range of different forms of political agency and explores their significance for understanding and enacting global politics. Reflecting the efforts of scholars from a variety of disciplines from political theory and Sociology to Geography and International Relations, it brings into conversation a wide spectrum of theoretical approaches including Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism and historical institutionalism. The contributors compare a range of forms of political agency; exploring their significance for the theory and practice of global politics; and reflect on the tensions and synergies generated by recent efforts to conceptualise them. Demonstrating an innovative and interdisciplinary approach Contemporary Political Agency will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, sociology, political economy and political theory"--

Civil Society, Conflicts and the Politicization of Human Rights explores violent conflict and peace. The contributors examine how violence is generated, managed, exploited and eradicated in ethno-political conflicts, and how societies can be dragged out of conflict onto the transition towards peace. The usual take on these phenomena focuses on the role of governmental actors, both national and international. While official actors remain important, Civil Society, Conflicts and the Politicization of Human Rights examines the other side of the coin: the non-governmental component in ethno-politic

"Democracy is increasingly seen as the only legitimate form of government, but few people would regard international relations as governed according to democratic principles. Can this lack of global democracy be justified? Which models of global politics should contemporary democrats endorse and which should they reject? What are the most promising pathways to global democratic change? To what extent does the extension of democracy from the national to the international level require a radical rethinking of what democratic institutions should be? This book answers these questions by providing a sustained dialogue between scholars of political theory, international law, and empirical social science. By presenting a broad range of views by prominent scholars, it offers an in-depth analysis of one of the key challenges of our century: globalizing democracy and democratizing globalization"--