Non-State Actors in World Affairs (PSC 757.001)                                                                   

NGO gateway (globalpolicy.org)

NGOs (University of Minnesota)

United Nations Civil Society Website

1. Willetts, Peter (2002) 'What is a Non-Governmental Organization?,' in Knowledge for Sustainable Development. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Vol. 3, UNESCO Publishing.

2. Munck, Ronaldo (2006) 'Global Civil Society: Royal Road or Slippery Path?,' Voluntas 17 (3), 325-332. 

3. Anheier, Helmut (2007) 'Reflections on the Concept and Measurement of Global Civil Society,' Voluntas 18 (1), 1-15.

4. Martens, Kerstin (2002) 'Mission Impossible. Defining Nongovernmental Organizations,' Voluntas 13 (3), 271-285.

5. Florini, Ann (2004) 'Is Global Civil Society a Good Thing?,' New Perspectives Quarterly 21 (2), 72-77.

1. Anheier, Helmut and Nuno Themudo (2002) 'Organizational Forms of Global Civil Society, 'Global Civil Society Yearbook 2002 (Helmut Anheier et al., eds.), 191-216.

2. Clark, John D. (2003) Worlds Apart. Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization, London: Earthscan, ch. 5-9, pp. 91-185.

3. Smith, Jackie/Wiest, Dawn (2005) 'The Uneven Geography of Global Civil Society. National and Global Influences on Transnational Association,' Social Forces 84 (2), 621-652.

4. Batliwala, Srilatha and L. David Brown (ed.) (2006) Transnational Civil Society. An Introduction, Bloomfield: Kumarian.

5.  Edwards, Michael (2004) Civil Society, Cambridge: Polity.

6. Anderson, Kenneth and David Rieff (2004) 'Global civil society: A skeptical view,' Global Civil Society Yearbook 2004/05 (Helmut Anheier et al, eds.), 26-39.

NGO Watch (American Enterprise Institute)

Transnational Studies Initiative (Harvard/University of Washington)

1. Orenstein, Mitchell A. and Hans Peter Schmitz (2006), 'The New Transnationalism and Comparative Politics,' Comparative Politics 38 (4), 479-500.

2. Risse, Thomas (2001) 'Transnational Actors and World Politics,' in Handbook of International Relations, edited by Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth Simmons, London: Sage, 255-74.

3. Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye (1971) 'Introduction', in: Transnational Relations and World Politics, Cambridge: Harvard UP, vii-xxix.

4. Keck, Margaret E. and Kathryn Sikkink. (1998) 'Introduction', in Activists Beyond Borders. Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca: Cornell UP.

5. Brown, L. David and Vanessa Timmer (2006) 'Civil Society Actors as Catalysts for Transnational Social Learning,' Voluntas 17 (1), 1-16. 

Suggested:

1.  Huntington, Samuel P. (1973) 'Transnational Organizations in World Politics,' World Politics 25 (3), 333-368.

2.Green Cowles, Maria (2003) 'Non-state actors and false dichotomies,' Journal of European Public Policy 10 (1), 102-120.

3. Charnovitz, Steve (1997) 'Two Centuries of Participation: NGOs and International Governance,' Michigan Journal of International Law, 18 (2), 183-286.

4. Price, Richard (2003) 'Transnational Civil Society and Advocacy in World Politics,' World Politics 55 (4), 579-606.

5. Boli, John and George M. Thomas (eds.) (1999) Constructing World Culture. International Non-Governmental Organizations Since 1875. Stanford: Stanford UP.

Global Civil Society Yearbook (London School of Economics)

Union of International Organizations (Yearbook of IOs and NGOs)

UN and Civil Society

1. Carpenter, R. Charli (2007) 'Setting the Advocacy Agenda. Issue Emergence and Non-Emergence in Transnational Advocacy Networks' International Studies Quarterly 51 (1), 99-120. 

2. Krasner, Stephen (1995) 'Power politics, institutions, and transnational relations,' in Bringing Transnational Relations Back In. Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International Institutions (Thomas Risse-Kappen, ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 257-279.

3. Tarrow, Sidney (2005) The New Transnational Activism, Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

4. Jaeger, Hans-Martin (2007) ' "Global Civil Society" and the Political Depoliticization of Global Governance', International Political Sociology 1(3), 257-277.

Suggested:

1. O'Neill, Kate/Balsiger, Jörg/VanDeveer, Stacy (2004) 'Actors, Norms, and Impact. Recent International Cooperation Theory and the Influence of the Agent-Structure Debate,' Annual Review of Political Science 7, 147-175.

2. Barrett, Deborah/Kurzman, Charles (2004) 'Globalizing Social Movement Theory. The Case of Eugenics', Theory and Society 33, 487-527.

3. Bartelson, Jens (2006) 'Making Sense of Global Civil Society,' European Journal of International Relations 12 (3), 371-395.

4. Eschle, Catherine and Neil Stammers (2004) 'Taking Part: Social Movements, INGOs and Global Change,' Alternatives 29 (4), 335-374.

5. Demirovic, Alex (2003), 'NGOs, the State, and Civil Society. The Transformation of Hegemony,' Rethinking Marxism 15 (2),213-235.

Journal of Civil Society (Routledge)
Voluntas

1. Risse-Kappen, Thomas (1995) 'Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Introduction,' in Bringing Transnational Relations Back In. Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International Institutions (Thomas Risse-Kappen, ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 3-33.

2. Risse, Thomas and Kathryn Sikkink (1999) 'The Socialization of International Human Rights Norms into Domestic Practices,' in The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change (Thomas Risse, Stephen Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink, eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1-38.

3. Schmitz, Hans Peter (2006) Transnational Mobilization and Domestic Regime Change. Africa in Comparative Perspective. Houndmills: Palgrave/Macmillan (chapters 1 and 2).

4. Bob, Clifford (2005) The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism, Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Suggested:

1. Fisher, William F. (1997) 'Doing Good? The Politics and Anti-Politics of NGO Practices,'  Annual Review of Anthropology (26): 439-464.

2. Mendelson, Sarah E. and John K. Glenn. (2002) The Power and Limits of NGOs. New York: Columbia UP.

3. Henderson, Sarah (2002) 'Selling Civil Society,' Comparative Political Studies 35 (2), 139-67.

4. Jordan, Lisa and Peter Van Tuijl (2000) 'Political Responsibility in Transnational NGO Advocacy,' World Development 28 (12), 2051-65.

 1. Hopgood, Stephen (2006) Keepers of the Flame. Understanding Amnesty International. Ithaca: Cornell UP.

2. Buchanan, Tom (2002) '’The Truth Will Set you Free’: The Making of Amnesty International,' Journal of Contemporary History 37 (4), 575-597.

3. Youngs, Gillian (2003) 'Private Pain/Public Peace: Women's Rights as Human Rights,'

Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 (4), 1209-1232.

Suggested:

1. Hertel, Shareen (2006) Unexpected Power. Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists, Ithaca: Cornell UP.

2. Thörn, Hakan (2006) Solidarity Across Borders. The Transnational Anti-Apartheid Movement, Voluntas 17, 285-301.

3. Korey, William (1998) NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A Curious Grapevine, Palgrave.

4. Watson, Alison (2004) 'Human Rights Watch,' New Political Economy 9 (3), 441-453.  

1. Spees, Pam (2003) 'Women's Advocacy in the Creation of the International Criminal Court: Changing the Landscapes of Justice and Power,' Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, 1233-1254.

2. Snyder, Jack and Leslie Vinjamuri (2003) 'Trials and Errors', International Security 28 (3), 5-44.

3. Glasius, Marlies (2002) 'Expertise in the Cause of Justice. Global Civil Society Influence on the Statute for an International Criminal Court,' in Global Civil Society Yearbook 2002  (Helmut Anheier et al., eds.), 137-68.

Suggested:

1. Roht-Arriaza, Naomi (2005) The Pinochet Effect. Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

The International Criminal Court (ICC)

NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court

Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

1. Fast, Larissa (2007) 'Characteristics, context and risk: NGO insecurity in conflict zones,' Disasters 31 (2), 130-154.

2. Kennedy, David (2004) The Dark Sides of Virtue. Reassessing International Humanitarianism, Princeton: Princeton UP.

3. Cooley, Alexander/Ron, James (2002) 'The NGO Scramble,' International Security, 27 (1), 5-39.

4. Walker, Peter (2005) 'Cracking the Code. The Genesis, Use, and Future of the Code of Conduct,' Disasters 29 (4), 323-336.

5. Bell, Daniel A. and Joseph H. Carens (2004) 'The Ethical Dilemmas of International Human Rights and Humanitarian NGOs: Reflections on a Dialogue between Practitioners and Theorists', Human Rights Quarterly, 26: 300-329.

Suggested:

1. Slim, Hugo (2003) 'Humanitarianism with Borders? NGOs, Belligerent Military Forces and Humanitarian Action,' The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance. Department of Peace Studies. Bradford University.

2. Kaldor, Mary, Denisa Kostovicova and Yahia Said (2006) “War and Peace: The Role of Global Civil Society”, in Glasius, Marlies, Mary Kaldor and Helmut Anheier (eds.) Global Civil Society Yearbook 2006-7.

3. Pham J. Peter (2006) 'The Limits of Intervention - Humanitarian or Otherwise,' Human Rights & Human Welfare 6, 13-30.

4. Terry, Fiona (2002) Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action, Ithaca: Cornell UP.

1. Hill, Felicity, Aboitiz, Mikele and Poehlman-Doumbouya, Sara (2003) 'Nongovernmental Organizations' Role in the Buildup and Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325,' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 (4), 1255-1269.

2. Zagorac, Dean (2005) International Courts and Compliance Bodies. The Experience of Amnesty International, in Civil Society, International Courts, and Compliance Bodies (Tullio Treves et al., eds.), T.M.C. Asser Press, 11-39.

3. Price, Richard (1998) 'Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines,' International Organization 52 (3): 613-44.

4. Tamm, Ingrid J. (2004) 'Dangerous Appetites: Human Rights Activism and Conflict Commodities,' Human Rights Quarterly 26, 687–704.

5. Le Billon, Philippe (2006) 'Fatal Transactions: Conflict Diamonds and the (Anti) Terrorist Consumer,' Antipode 38 (4), 778-801.

Suggested:

1. Ruggie, John Gerard (2004) Reconstituting the Global Public Domain. Issues, and Actors, and Practices  European Journal of International Relations 10 (4): 499-531.

2. Joachim, Jutta (2003) Framing Issues and Seizing Opportunities. The UN, NGOs, and Women's Rights, International Studies Quarterly 47, 247-74.

3. O'Brien, Robert, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams (2001) Contesting Global Governance. Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

4. Willetts, Peter (2000) From "consultative arrangements" to "partnerships": The changing role of NGOs in the diplomacy at the UN, Global Governance 6 (2), 191-212.

5. Cullen, Holly and Karen Morrow (2001) International Civil Society in International Law: The Growth of NGO Participation, Non-State Actors in International Law 1: 7-39.

6. Anderson, Kenneth (2000) 'The Ottawa Convention Banning Landmines, the Role of International Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Idea of International Civil Society', European Journal of International Law 11 (1), 91-120.

7. Tannenwald, Nina (2005) 'Stigmatizing the Bomb. Origins of the Nuclear Taboo,' International Security 29 (4), 5-49.

8. Clark, Ann Marie et al. (1998) The Sovereign Limits of Global Civil Society. A Comparison of NGO Participation in UN World Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights, and Women, World Politics 51 (1), 1-35.

9. Rutherford, Ken (2000) 'The Evolving Arms Control Agenda: Implications of the Role of NGOs in Banning Antipersonnel Landmines,' World Politics 53 (1), 74-114.

United Nations Civil Society Website

International Action Network on Small Arms

Landmines Campaign

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

1. Rohrschneider, Robert and Russell J. Dalton (2002), 'A Global Network? Transnational Cooperation among Environmental Groups,' The Journal of Politics 64 (2), 510-533.

2. Currie, Duncan E.J. (2005), 'The Experience of Greenpeace,' in: Civil Society, International Courts, and Compliance Bodies (Tullio Treves et al., eds.), T.M.C. Asser Press, 149-166.

3. Bleiker, Roland/Kay, Amy (2007) 'Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa: Pluralist Photography and Local Empowerment,' International Studies Quarterly 51, 139-163.

4. Shadlen, Kenneth C. (2007), 'The Political Economy of AIDS Treatment: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Generic Supply,' International Studies Quarterly 50, 559-581.

1. Bebbington, Anthony (2005), Donor-NGO Relations and Representations of Livelihoods in Nongovernmental Aid Chains, World Development 33 (6), 937-950.

2. Ebrahim, Alnoor (2005) NGOs and Organizational Change. Discourse, Reporting, and Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

3. Murphy, Jonathan (2005) ‘The World Bank, INGOs, and Civil Society: Converging Agendas? The Case of Universal Basic Education in Niger,’ Voluntas 16 (4), 353-374.

4. Flanigan, Shawn Teresa (2007) ‘Paying for God’s Work: A Rights-Based Examination of Faith-Based NGOs in Romania,’ Voluntas 18, 156-175.

5. Pfeiffer, James (2003) ‘International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique: the need for a new model of collaboration’ Social Science & Medicine 56 725–738.

6. Platteau, J-P. (2004) Monitoring Elite Capture in Community-Driven Development, Development and Change 35 (2), 223-246.

7. Mohan, Giles (2002) ‘The disappointments of civil society: the politics of NGO intervention in northern Ghana,’ Political Geography 21, 125–154.

Suggested:

1. Lindenberg, Marc/Bryant, Coralie (2001) Going Global. Transforming Relief and Development NGOs, Kumarian Press.

2. Mallaby, Sebastian (2004) 'NGOs. Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor,' Foreign Policy (September/October), 51-58.

Oxfam

World Development (journal)

Worldvision

Save the Children

CARE

1. Ebrahim, Alnoor (2003) 'Accountability in Praxis. Mechanisms for NGOs,' World Development 31 (5), 813-829.

2. Slim, Hugo (2002) 'By What Authority? The Legitimacy and Accountability of Non-Governmental Organizations,' The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance: Department of Peace Studies. Bradford University.

3. Rubenstein, Jennifer (2007) 'Accountability in an Unequal World,' The Journal of Politics 69 (3), 616-632.

4. Atack, Iain (1999) 'Four Criteria for Development NGO Legitimacy', World Development, 27 (5), 855-864.

Suggested:

1. Lee, Julian (2004) 'NGO Accountability. Rights and Responsibilities', Geneva: The Program on NGOs and Civil Society/Center for Applied Studies in International Negotiations.

2. McGann, James and Mary Johnston (2006) 'The Power Shift and the NGO Credibility Crisis', International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, 8 (2), 65-77.

3. Gibelman, Margaret and Sheldon R. Gelman (2004) 'A Loss of Credibility. Patterns of Wrongdoing among Non-Governmental Organizations,' Voluntas 15 (4), 355-381.

4. Collingwood, Vivien and Louis Logister (2005) 'State of the Art. Addressing the INGO 'Legitimacy Deficit'', Political Studies Review 3, 175-192.

The Global Compact (United Nations)

INGO Accountability Charter

Accountability resources (@Global Development Research Center)

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)