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Author:   Jackie Smith (University of Pittsburgh)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780801887444

ISBN 10:   0801887445
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 March 2008
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Tables and Figures Preface Part I: Foundations 1. Contested Globalizations 2. Rival Transnational Networks 3. Politics in a Global System Part II: Rival Networks Examined 4. Globalizing Capitalism: The Transnational Neoliberal Network in Action 5. Promoting Multilateralism: Social Movements and the UN System 6. Mobilizing a Transnational Network for Democratic Globalization Part III: Struggles for Multilateralism and Global Democracy 7. Agenda Setting in a Global Polity 8. Domesticating International Human Rights Norms 9. Confronting Contradictions between Multilateral Economic Institutions and the UN System 10. Alternative Political Spaces: The World Social Forum Process and ""Globalization from Below"" Conclusion: Network Politics and Global Democracy Notes References Index"

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This impressive book presents a distinctive and provocative point of view. It successfully combines the construction of an analytical framework with the advocacy of a political agenda without allowing the political agenda to overwhelm the analytical framework or the analytical framework to obscure the political issues at stake. Social Movements for Global Democracy will play an important role in future debates over globalization. - Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley At last, a book that takes seriously the role of international institutions in opposing global neoliberalism! While acutely conscious of the biases of these institutions, Smith vigorously argues that the new forms of democratic participation encapsulated in the movement for global justice must engage them in contentious interaction. Her book is a challenge to movement activists and to institutional elites alike. - Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University

Smith's book nicely illuminates the emerging world of global civil society, providing tools for its ongoing study. -- G. John Ikenberry Foreign Affairs 2008 Highly recommended. Choice 2008 She mobilizes a host of secondary literature, as well as original field research, to offer a well-supported examination of the threats to, and need for, making multilateral institutions work on behalf of those who would save the world, not sell it. -- Elisabeth Jay Friedman Mobilization 2008 An impassioned examination of transnational social movements... provides valuable insights into the mobilization, tactics, and successes of the democratic globalization movement. -- Liam Swiss Canadian Journal of Sociology 2009 This is an excellent study that shows the diversity of the democratic globalization movement. -- Agnieszka Paczynska Peace and Change 2009 Smith has gathered a very impressive collection of data on complex global processes and structures. Writing from an engaged, critical perspective, she offers a coherent, thoughtful analysis of contested processes of globalization and constructive insights on potential pathways toward global democratization. This excellent book will be of great interest to sociologists and other students of this critical issue of our times. -- Lynn R. Horton Contemporary Sociology 2009

Author Information

Jackie Smith is an associate professor of sociology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is coauthor of Global Democracy and the World Social Forums and coeditor of Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order, Globalizing Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements, and Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State.

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