Global Civil Society and Its Limits

ISMET AKÇA Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Bogaziçi, Istanbul JEFFREY AYRES Associate Professor of Political Science, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont, USA JONATHAN FOX Professor and Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies Department, University of California, USA LAWRENCE HAMILTON Mellon Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK JOSÉE JOHNSTON Ph.D. on food security, University of Toronto MARIE-JOSÉE MASSICOTTE Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada HENRY MILNER Professor of Political Science, Vanier College, Montreal, Canada LISA SUNDSTROM Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, USA

Introduction: Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization; S.Halperin & G.Laxer PART 1: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: CRITIQUES Global Civil Society and International Protest: No Swan Song Yet for the State; J.Ayres The Dis-embedding and Re-embedding of Capital: Lessons From History; S.Halperin 'Civil Society': Critique and Alternative; L.Hamilton PART 2: TRANSNATIONAL ADVOCACY NETWORKS: HARBINGERS OF A GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY? We are all Marcos? Zapatismo, Solidarity and the Politics of Scale; J.Johnston 'Local' Organizing and 'Global' Struggles: Coalition-Building for Social Justice in the Americas; M.Massicotte Lessons From the Mexican-US Civil Society Coalitions; J.Fox Transnational Assistance to Russian NGO Development: Beneath the Apparent Construction of a Global Civil Society; L.M.Sundstrom PART 3: THE NATIONAL AS A SITE OF ANTI-GLOBALISM RESISTANCE The Defeat of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment: National Movements Confront Globalism; G.Laxer Civic Literacy in the Global Civil Society: Excluding the Majority from Democratic Participation; H.Milner 'Globalization' and Labour Strategy: Towards a Social Movement Unionism; I.Akça