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This article provides a case study of overseas development assistance for AIDS to South African civil society; it analyses how power is exercised as well as resisted in the context of international aid. While it is argued that governance theory tends to underestimate power inequalities in the context of policy networks, this case is instead related to the theoretical debate regarding whether current global power structures can be analysed in terms of a (US-led) neo-imperialism, or whether they should rather be understood in terms of post- imperialist power constellations based on 'regulation of self-regulation' through market mechanisms, and with an emphasis on 'civil society participation'. While the case demonstrates how US aid under the Bush administrations to a certain extent involved a 'civilising mission', it is argued that 'regulation of self-regulation' was the more significant form of governing AIDS aid networks, contributing to a development through which AIDS activism went through a process of 'NGO-isation', de-politicising the AIDS issue. Adapted from the source document.

Discusses democratization in the context of current economic globalization to argue that declarations of "democracy" based on the establishment of free elections are meaningless when the power of national political institutions has been seriously impaired by the pressure of transnational capital & the loss of citizen involvement in party politics. Attention is called to the presence of an increasing number of global actors, including social movements, non-governmental organizations, private foundations, & interest groups, that make up global civil society. It is maintained that the unevenness of participation & influence in global civil society reflects global economic & political inequalities. Social movements for social justice often mobilize against the influence of large global actors like the World Economic Forum & the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue. The specific cases of the global justice movement & global AIDS politics are explored, along with the importance of understanding the anti-apartheid movement as a link between post-war & current civil society mobilization such as the World Social Forum. References. J. Lindroth