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NGOs and Transnational Networks: Wild Cards in World Politics » (1st Edition)

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Authors: William DeMars
ISBN-13: 9780745319056, ISBN-10: 074531905X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: May 2005
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: William DeMars

William DeMars is chairman of the Department of Government at Wofford College in South Carolina. Previously he has taught International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He has observed NGOs operating in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central America and East Asia. His publications have addressed humanitarian politics, the changing face of war in Africa and intelligence issues.

Book Synopsis

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.

1	Your NGO starter kit	6
2	Partners in conflict : a structural theory of NGOs	34
3	Ironic origins of transnational organizing	64
4	NGOs versus dictators : Argentina's dirty war revisited	90
5	Dancing in the dark : NGOs and states in former Yugoslavia	120
6	Engineering fertility	143
7	Changing partners, shaping progress : the future of NGOs	162
App	Active NGOs discussed in this book	188