The origins of global civil society and nonterritorial governance: Some empirical reflections

Global Governance

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 241-261

  Coleman, William D ^a   Wayland, Sarah ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement Toronto (CERIS)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Democracy; Global civil society; Globalization; Nonstate actors; Plant biotechnology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749254293     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01203003     Document Type: Article

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2. John Boli and George M. Thomas, "INGOs and the Organization of World Culture," in Boli and Thomas, Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, Ibid.
3. John Boli and George M. Thomas, Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875, Ibid., p. 18.
4. John Boli and George M. Thomas, Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875, Ibid., pp. 34-41.
5. John Boli and George M. Thomas, Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875, Ibid., p. 37.
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11. Sydney Tarrow, Annual Review of Political Science, Ibid., p. 14.
12. This term comes from Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, "Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics: Introduction," in Keck and Sikkink, eds., Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).
13. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics, Ibid., pp. 10-16.
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24. This thinking on a transnational policy space is elaborated further in W. D. Coleman, "Globality and Transnational Policy-Making in Agriculture: Complexity, Contradictions, and Conflict," in Edgar Grande and Louis W. Pauly, eds., Reconstituting Political Authority: Complex Sovereignty and the Foundations of Global Governance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), pp. 94-98.
25. These nodes of the policy space are derived from the analysis in W. D Coleman and Melissa Gabler, "Agricultural Biotechnology and Regime Formation: A Constructivist Assessment of the Prospects," International Studies Quarterly 46 (2002): 481-506.
26. More detail on these conflicts is available in Coleman and Gabler, "Regime Formation," pp. 494-495.
27. Interviews were carried out in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States, as well as at the European Union level and the global level in Geneva between 2001 and 2003.
28. These data were supplied to the authors by IFAP.
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30. The following data were all culled from successive annual reports of IFOAM.
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35. Confidential interview, Paris, December 2001. Translation by authors.
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39. Jan Aart Scholte, Democratizing the Global Economy: The Role of Civil Society (Coventry: Center for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 2003), p. 11.
40. Kaldor, Global Civil Society, pp. 44-45;
41. Wapner, "Normative Promise," p. 266.
42. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, "Conclusions," in Keck and Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders, p. 210.