Global Civil Society and Its Limits

Introduction: Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization; S.Halperin & G.Laxer PART 1: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: CRITIQUES Global Civil Society and International Protest: No Swan Song Yet for the State; J.Ayres The Dis-embedding and Re-embedding of Capital: Lessons From History; S.Halperin 'Civil Society': Critique and Alternative; L.Hamilton PART 2: TRANSNATIONAL ADVOCACY NETWORKS: HARBINGERS OF A GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY? We are all Marcos? Zapatismo, Solidarity and the Politics of Scale; J.Johnston 'Local' Organizing and 'Global' Struggles: Coalition-Building for Social Justice in the Americas; M.Massicotte Lessons From the Mexican-US Civil Society Coalitions; J.Fox Transnational Assistance to Russian NGO Development: Beneath the Apparent Construction of a Global Civil Society; L.M.Sundstrom PART 3: THE NATIONAL AS A SITE OF ANTI-GLOBALISM RESISTANCE The Defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: National Movements Confront Globalism; G.Laxer Civic Literacy in the Global Civil Society: Excluding the Majority from Democratic Participation; H.Milner 'Globalization' and Labour Strategy: Towards a Social Movement Unionism; I.Akça