The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics [Paperback]

This book analyzes transnational advocacy by conservatives, examining combat over issues such as gay rights and gun control.This book analyzes transnational advocacy, not by environmental and rights groups, but by conservatives. Mobilizing around diverse issues, their networks challenge progressive foes. In ensuing battles, opponents struggle to advance their causes and destroy their rivals, deploying exclusionary strategies, negative tactics, and dissuasive ideas. Examining combat over gay rights and gun control, Clifford Bob's conclusions about norms, activists, and institutions will change how campaigners fight, scholars analyze policy wars, and all of us understand global politics.This book analyzes transnational advocacy, not by environmental and rights groups, but by conservatives. Mobilizing around diverse issues, their networks challenge progressive foes. In ensuing battles, opponents struggle to advance their causes and destroy their rivals, deploying exclusionary strategies, negative tactics, and dissuasive ideas. Examining combat over gay rights and gun control, Clifford Bob's conclusions about norms, activists, and institutions will change how campaigners fight, scholars analyze policy wars, and all of us understand global politics.This book is an eye-opening account of transnational advocacy, not by environmental and rights groups, but by conservative activists. Mobilizing around diverse issues, these networks challenge progressive foes across borders and within institutions. In these globalized battles, opponents struggle as much to advance their own causes as to destroy their rivals. Deploying exclusionary strategies, negative tactics and dissuasive ideas, they aim both to make and unmake policy. In this work, Clifford Bob chronicles combat over homosexuality and gun control in the UN, the Americas, Europe and elsewhere. He investigates the 'Baptist-burqa' network of conservative believers attacking gay rights, and the global gun coalition blasting eflc"