Sixty Years of Transnational Civil Society Mobilizations: The Other Side of Global Politics (Innovations in International Affairs)

Sixty Years of Transnational Civil Society Mobilizations: The Other Side of Global Politics offers a new reading of the role played by civil society in global politics over the last few decades. This book tells a story about the lesser-known side of globalization, the non-governmental and civil one, in order to contribute to a better understanding of a phenomenon precisely at the moment of its reconfiguration.The book’s theoretical framework innovatively differentiates transnational mobilizations according to their vision of global politics: civilizations, cosmopolitanism, localism, and neoliberalism.Together with these visions, the book studies the organizational forms, strategies, and the contextual conditions that have allowed for the flourishing of global activism in the last fifty years.From the 1970s, global activism has been an integral part of the western-led process of globalization.Today we are on the verge of deep international transformations: globalization is declining, gl