Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action [Hardcover]

Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research around the themes of environmentalism, security, children's rights and more, the contributors explore the complex politics amongst non-governmental public actors acting transnationally.Introduction; J.Howell Global Norms, Domestic Politics: Children's Rights and Civil Society in Argentina; J.Grugel  & E.Peruzzotti Post-9/11 Global Security Regime and Non-governmental Public Action; J.Howell NGO Coalitions and the Global Access to Medicines Campaign: the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Developing Countries; D.Matthews The Influence of Transnational Non-governmental Public Actors on Policy Processes and Policy Outcomes: Rethinking North-south Relations; R.Crook NGOs, the State and 'Cultural Values': Imagining the Global in Sri Lanka; H.Amarasuriya  & J.Spencer Alternative Media and Public Action: How Online Media Movements (Don't) Use Resources; A.Spicer North-South Environmentalisms: Friends of the Earth International (FOEI); B.Doherty  & T.Doyle Global Policy and the Public Action of Private Philanthropy: the Open Society Foundation; D.StoneHARINI AMARASURIYA Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social Studies, at the Open University of Sri LankaRICHARD CROOK Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UKBRIAN DOHERTY Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University, UKTIMOTHY DOYLE Professor of Politics and International Studies in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia and Chair of Politics and International Relations in SPIRE at Keele University, UKJEAN GRUGEL Professor of International Development in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UKJUDE HOWELL Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics and ló©