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'Global Civil Society': A Sceptical View, Kenneth Anderson, David Rieff Jan 2005

'Global Civil Society': A Sceptical View, Kenneth Anderson, David Rieff

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American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2008-69Abstract:The editors of the leading yearbook of global civil society studies offered to the authors of this article an opportunity to present a skeptical account of global civil society as the opening chapter in the 2004/5 yearbook. The article examines the standard account of global civil society as the transnational equivalent, in a globalized world, of civil society in a domestic society, and further as, in Kofi Annan's oft-repeated view, international NGOs as the representatives of the peoples of the world to international organizations such as the UN. The article attacks this standard view, …


Leopold & Morel: A Story Of 'Free Trade' And 'Native Rights' In The Congo Free State, Padideh Ala'i Jan 2005

Leopold & Morel: A Story Of 'Free Trade' And 'Native Rights' In The Congo Free State, Padideh Ala'i

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