Global Civil Society in Action?

by Teivo Teivainen

Starting from the emergence of the globalization protest movement in the late 1990s, this new book explores how democratic principles can be applied in transnational and global contexts.

Focusing on the World Social Forum (WSF), Teivo Teivainen analyzes the various dilemmas of democratization in a dynamic process that is explicitly global but has many local variations. He acknowledges that states and democratic institutions play a significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415357276
• ISBN13: 9780415357272
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages