This book provides a detailed examination of the evolution of democracy and the role of civil society in Nigeria. Written by Matthew Hassan Kukah, it explores the relationship between state institutions, civic groups, and citizens in the struggle for democratic governance. Kukah analyzes authoritarianism, military rule, human rights issues, and the challenges faced by civil society organization…
John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangeme…
The contents of this book: Part 1: Concepts of Global Civil Society Part 2: Issues in Global Civil Society Part 3: Infrastructure of Global Civil Society Part 4: Records of Global Civil Society
The ever-shrinking, globalizing world presents challenges environmental limits, new epidemics, humanitarian crises, accelerating gaps between rich and poor-that exceed the mandates and capacities of existing institutions. Civil society organizations are emerging as increasingly critical sources of innovative ideas and new resources to fill these breaches. Often solutions require generating new …
Success in multilateral disarmament and arms control negotiations has been scarce in recent years. There is need for new approaches―to “think outside the box”―in order to make them work better because continued failure has real human costs. This volume offers new practical tools and perspectives to inform and help the ongoing efforts of multilateral disarmament practitioners, drawing fr…
This is an assessment of the transformation that took place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The book addresses two central questions: how is the state socialist system of party monopoly and centralized planning dissolving? And how do these societies recreate the communist opposite - civil society and free markets? The contributors attribute the collapse of state socialism to ideological…