Non-Governmental Organisations and their networks are proliferating in all regions of the world. They address every transnational issue from population to peace, human rights to species rights, genocide to AIDS. Supporters claim NGOs are effective in achieving their goals, while detractors counter that NGO power is paltry compared to governments and corporations. Challenging both views, DeMars irreverently reveals the political claims implicit in every transnational NGO. They are best...
DeMars argues that NGOs are best conceptualized not in terms of either principles or power, but through the partners they make in transnational society and politics.
1Your NGO starter kit62Partners in conflict : a structural theory of NGOs343Ironic origins of transnational organizing644NGOs versus dictators : Argentina's dirty war revisited905Dancing in the dark : NGOs and states in former Yugoslavia1206Engineering fertility1437Changing partners, shaping progress : the future of NGOs162AppActive NGOs discussed in this book188