Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2004
Abstract
Washingtons — Tanks in the streets of Seattle in 1999. Molotov cocktails in Prague in 2000. Gunfire in Genoa in 2001. A hundred thousand people gathering every winter in a World Social Forum to talk about how to improve the world. Global agreements on everything from human rights protections to banning weapons systems. Fifteen million people on the streets in cities around the world on a single day in 2003 to protest the Iraq war. These headlines reflect the rise of a force now so potent in world affairs that the New York Times has referred to it as “the second superpower.” It is the power of civil society, that ill-defined, amorphous realm of human associations that are not family or government or profit-seeking business
Discipline
Political Science | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
New Perspectives Quarterly
Volume
21
Issue
2
First Page
72
Last Page
76
ISSN
0893-7850
Identifier
10.1111/j.1540-5842.2004.00667.x
Citation
FLORINI, Ann.(2004). Is global civil society a good thing?. New Perspectives Quarterly, 21(2), 72-76.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5842.2004.00667.x
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