Transnational Civil Society : An Introduction

* Features a perspective of both developing and industrialized countries
* For a wide audience including academics, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners

The growing impact of cross-border civil society networks and campaigns on global policy has made transnational civil society an increasingly important phenomenon. Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction provides a clear and accessible introduction to the history, characteristics, and achievements of influential transnational civil society networks, coalitions, and movements.

Editors Srilatha Batliwala and L. David Brown provide an in-depth analysis of the forces that have shaped transnational activism: globalism, economic and political power structures, and cross-border organization by non-state actors. Important transnational movements that have shaped our world - labor, environment, human rights, women's rights, peace, and economic justice - are also described and analyzed. The contributors are globally experienced activist-scholars and reflective practitioners discussing both developing and industrialized countries.

For students, practitioners, and activists alike, Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction offers comprehensible descriptions of transnational initiatives working toward effective and sustainable solutions to some of the critical challenges facing our world.

L. David Brown is Associate Director for International Programs at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to coming to Harvard he was President of the Institute for Development Research, a nonprofit center for development research and consultation, and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Boston University.

Srilatha Batliwala is an Indian feminist scholar-practictioner who has combined grassroots activism and research throughout her career. She is currently Civil Society Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where her work focuses on transnational civil society, particullarly on transnational grassroots movements, and on bridging the divide between practictioners and scholars. She is also Chair of the Board of Women's Environment and Board of the International Society for Third Sector Research, and a Research Associate of Gender at Work, an international learning network on gender and institutional change.