Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority.

As the preeminent international development agency for the past sixty years, the World Bank has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise.

Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance.

A groundbreaking study of labor unions that advances a new theory of organizational leadership and governanceIn the Interest of Others develops a new theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members directly.

In this book, Julia Berger examines internal meaning-making structures and processes driving NGO behavior, identifying constructs from within a religious tradition that forge new ways of pursuing social change.

In this book, Julia Berger examines internal meaning-making structures and processes driving NGO behavior, identifying constructs from within a religious tradition that forge new ways of pursuing social change.

This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organizations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy, China and the USA.

This innovative volume brings together international design scholars to address the history and present-day status of national and international design organizations, working across design disciplines and located in countries including Argentina, Turkey, Estonia, Switzerland, Italy, China and the USA.

How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace?

How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace?

This book provides an original framework to examine how professionals control transnational issues, commonly considered the concern of organizations.

An analysis of the features of both governmental regulation of non-profit organizations and self-regulation by non-profit sectors themselves.

An analysis of the features of both governmental regulation of non-profit organizations and self-regulation by non-profit sectors themselves.

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

This book investigates how nongovernmental organizations can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests.

This book investigates how nongovernmental organizations can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests.

An analysis of the emergence of NGOs across China in three different issue areas: environmental protection, HIV/AIDS prevention, and gay and lesbian rights.

An analysis of the emergence of NGOs across China in three different issue areas: environmental protection, HIV/AIDS prevention, and gay and lesbian rights.

This book evaluates the credibility of NGOs as they monitor and supplant the public and private sectors.

This book evaluates the credibility of NGOs as they monitor and supplant the public and private sectors.

Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led by undocumented workers in a complicated and perhaps unexpected location: Vermont, United States.

As the preeminent international development agency for the past sixty years, the World Bank has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise.

Discover how those who change the world do so with this thoughtful and timely book Why do some changes occur, and others don't?

Discover how those who change the world do so with this thoughtful and timely book Why do some changes occur, and others don't?

An original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa.

An original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa.

Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana.

Focuses on the concept phase of the project to resolve complex challenges in the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana.

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

Examines the last forty years of Iranian and Middle-Eastern history through the prism of the Green Uprisings of 2009.

Based on interviews with the notorious armed rebel group, the LRA, this study explores why efforts at contemporary peacemaking so often fail.

This book represents the first comprehensive analysis of NGO participation at international criminal and human rights courts.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

A deep insight into the emergence and persistence of new continental development institutions in Africa and their capacity to affect development outcomes.

A deep insight into the emergence and persistence of new continental development institutions in Africa and their capacity to affect development outcomes.

Explains how and when public and non-public warnings about future conflicts affect decision-making in Western states and international organisations.

Explains how and when public and non-public warnings about future conflicts affect decision-making in Western states and international organisations.

Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women''s rights in South Africa.

Based on interviews with the notorious armed rebel group, the LRA, this study explores why efforts at contemporary peacemaking so often fail.

Former prime minister of Turkey Davutoglu provides a new conceptualization for understanding crisis in the post-Cold War era.

Former prime minister of Turkey Davutoglu provides a new conceptualization for understanding crisis in the post-Cold War era.

Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women''s rights in South Africa.

Examines the last forty years of Iranian and Middle-Eastern history through the prism of the Green Uprisings of 2009.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

Laura Montanaro asks what entitles self-appointed representatives, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, to speak and act for others.

Explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures make global governance organizations accountable to local realities.

This book explores how civil society organisations are, and might best be, regulated in Europe, at both the regional and domestic level.