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Non-governmental organizations have gained a great deal of popularity in recent years. The awarding of the Nobel Prize to The International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1997 and to Medicins Sans Frontieres in 1999 has highlighted the emergence of these organizations as "new" forces in international politics. Yet, there is no work to date that has provided an overview of the varieties of interaction between NGOs and states, international organizations and in international politics. This is especially true of books aimed at undergraduates.

NGOs in International Politics surveys a range of NGO activities and relationships in a manner accessible to students in the classroom. Despite the gap in the textbook literature, non-governmental organizations are being taught in undergraduate courses, either in theoretical terms or as components of service learning. This book is designed to remedy the gap between interest in NGOs and accessible literature for use in the classroom.

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Shamima Ahmed is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science & CJ, Northern Kentucky University. Her teaching and research interests are in public administration, nonprofit management, and research methods. She has published in Management Development Journal, International Journal of Public Administration, Asian Thought & Society, Public Personnel Management, and State & Local Government Review.

David Potter is a professor of political science in the Faculty of Policy Studies, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. He is the author of Japan’s Foreign Aid to Thailand and the Philippines (St. Martin’s Press, 1996) and co-author of Media, Bureaucracies, and Foreign Aid (Palgrave, 2004). He is the author of multiple articles and book chapters on Japan’s foreign aid, foreign policy, and non-governmental organizations.
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Defining NGOs turns out to be a key problem in determining what they are and what they do. Organizations are often called NGOs with little concern for clarity of meaning. Scholars tend to define them in ways that suit their particular research agendas. NGOs themselves sometimes use different definitions; for example, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is defined as a nongovernmental humanitarian agency, the last word denoting an intermediate status between NGO and intergovernmental organization (IGO). PVO (private voluntary organization) is sometimes used in the United States and is synonymous with NGO used in other countries. Today, NPO (nonprofit organization) and NGO are used nearly synonymously in the United States, although that is not always the case elsewhere in the world, and this book makes a distinction between them.

This book adopts the UN definition of NGOs: "Any international organization which is not established by inter-governmental agreement shall be considered as an NGO." The only constraints are that a NGO cannot be profit making; it cannot advocate the use of violence; it cannot be a school, a university, or a political party; and any concern with human rights must be general rather than restricted to a particular communal group, nationality, or country. This book also distinguishes between Northern NGOs (NNGOs) based in the industrial democracies and Southern NGOs (SNGOs) based in developing countries because the distinction aids clarity of meaning in some of the discussions below.

For purposes of this book, then, neither government agencies nor corporations are NGOs. The definition also excludes political parties, religious groups per se, private hospitals, and schools, which better fit the broader category of nonprofit organization. It also excludes organizations such as sports clubs and fraternal organizations because they are not concerned with economic and political development issues. Finally, the term is not as broad as non-state actor as conventionally used in international relations. The latter term includes multinational corporations (MNCs), organized crime groups, international producer cartels like OPEC, and organizations like the Palestine Liberation Organization that are not states but are not usually understood to be NGOs.

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  • ISBN 13 9781565492301
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