Civil Society and International Governance: The Role of Non-state Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East (Europe in the world 10)

217 Pages·2011·3 MB·English

by  David Armstrong

Civil Society and International
Governance
Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the
only – or even the most important – determinants of those political, economic
and social developments and dynamics that shape the modern world. Many
issues, including the environment, health, crime, drugs, migration and terrorism,
can no longer be contained within national boundaries. As a result, it is not
always possible to identify the loci for authority and legitimacy, and the role of
governments has been called into question.
This book critically analyses the increasing impact of nongovernmental
organizations and civil society on global and regional governance. Written from
the standpoint of advocates of civil society and addressing the role of civil
society in relation to the UN, the IMF, the G8 and the WTO, the contributors to
this volumes assess the role of various non-s tate actors from three perspectives:
theoretical aspects, civil society interaction with the European Union and civil
society and regional governance outside Europe, specifically Africa, East Asia
and the Middle East. It demonstrates that civil society’s role has been more
complex than one defined in terms, essentially, of resistance and includes actual
participation in governance as well as multi- faceted contributions to legitimizing
and democratizing global and regional governance.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science,
international relations, civil society, sociology, European politics and global
governance.
David Armstrong is Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter. Valeria
Bello is Marie Curie Intra- European Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona
d’Estudis Internacionals, Spain. Julie Gilson is a senior lecturer in the Depart-
ment of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birming-
ham. Debora Spini teaches political theory at Syracuse University in Florence
and Social Philosophy at Florence University.
Routledge/GARNET series: Europe in the world
Edited by David Armstrong
University of Exeter, UK
and
Karoline Postel-V inay
Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI), France.
Editorial Board: Dr Mary Farrell, Sciences Po, Paris; Dr Karoline Postel-
Vinay, CERI, France; Professor Richard Higgott, University of Warwick, UK;
Dr Christian Lequesne, CERI, France; and Professor Thomas Risse, Free Uni-
versity Berlin, Germany.
International Advisory Committee: Dr Salma Bava, Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-
sity, New Delhi, India; Dr Knud Erik Jørgensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark;
Professor Sunil Khilnani, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Dr Anne- Marie
Legloannec, CERI, France; Dr Xiaobo Lu, SIPA, Columbia University; Profes-
sor James Mittelman, University of Washington, USA; Dr Karen Smith, London
School of Economics, UK; Professor Elzbieta Stadtmuller, University of
Wroclaw, Poland.
The Routledge GARNET series, Europe in the World, provides a forum for
innovative research and current debates emanating from the research community
within the GARNET Network of Excellence. GARNET is a Europe- wide
network of 43 research institutions and scholars working collectively on ques-
tions around the theme of ‘Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation:
The Role of the EU’, and funded by the European Commission under the 6th
Framework Programme for Research.
1 EU Foreign Policy in a Globalized World
Normative power and social preferences
Edited by Zaki Laïdi
2 The Search for a European Identity
Values, policies and legitimacy of the European Union
Edited by Furio Cerutti and Sonia Lucarelli
3 The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization
How the EU influences the world
Edited by Jan Orbie and Lisa Tortell
4 Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development
Edited by Wil Hout and Richard Robison
5 The European Union and International Organizations
Knud Erik Jørgensen
6 The EU and Global Governance
Edited by Mario Telò
7 External Perceptions of the European Union as a Global Actor
Edited by Sonia Lucarelli and Lorenzo Fioramonti
8 A Global Security Triangle
European, African and Asian interaction
Edited by Valeria Bello and Belachew Gebrewold
9 European Union Democracy Aid
Supporting civil society in post-A partheid South Africa
Lorenzo Fioramonti
10 Civil Society and International Governance
The role of non-s tate actors in global and regional regulatory frameworks
Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello, Julie Gilson and Debora Spini

Civil Society and
International Governance
The role of non-s tate actors in global
and regional regulatory frameworks
Edited by David Armstrong,
Valeria Bello, Julie Gilson and
Debora Spini
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p. cm. – (Routledge/GARNET series: Europe in the world; 10)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Regionalism (International organization) 2. Civil society. 3.
International cooperation. I. Armstrong, J. D. (James David), 1945–
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Contents
Notes on contributors ix
Introduction: civil society and international governance 1
DAVID ARMSTRONG AND JULIE GILSON
PART I
Theory 13
1 Civil society and the democratisation of global public space 15
DEBORA SPINI
2 Collective and social identity: a theoretical analysis of the role
of civil society in the construction of supra-n ational societies 31
VALERIA BELLO
3 Organised civil society and political representation in the
EU arena 49
CARLO RUZZA
PART II
The European Union 71
4 Europeanization of non- state actors: towards a framework
for analysis 73
KArolinA BorońsKA-HryniEwiEcKA
5 Between localisation and Europeanisation: non- governmental
organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina 92
ERICA PANIGhELLO
viii Contents
6 European integration, cross- border cooperation and third
sector mobilizations in the Basque Country 107
XABIER ITçAINA
PART III
Civil society outside Europe 127
7 Governance and non- governmental organizations in
East Asia: building region-w ide coalitions 129
JULIE GILSON
8 Civil society in regional governance in Eastern and
Southern Africa 148
ANDRéAS GODSäTER AND FREDRIk SöDERBAUM
9 The role of civil society in regional governance in the
Middle East 166
MIChAEL SChULZ
10 Transnational labour mobilization in the Americas 181
MARCELO SAGUIER
Index 198
Contributors
David Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of International Relations of the Uni-
versity of Exeter, having previously held a Chair at the University of Durham
and a Readership at the University of Birmingham. he has published widely
on many aspects of International Relations, including Chinese foreign policy,
international organisations and international law. his main books to date
include Revolutionary Diplomacy: Chinese Foreign Policy and the United
Front Doctrine (California University Press, 1977), The Rise of the Interna-
tional Organisation (Macmillan, 1982), Revolution and World Order (Claren-
don Press, 1993) and International Law and International Relations
(Cambridge University Press, 2007). he is a Fellow of the Royal historical
Society and previous editor of the Review of International Studies.
Valeria Bello has a PhD in Sociology and Political Sociology, and since Novem-
ber 2009 has been a Marie Curie Intra- European Fellow at the Institut Barce-
lona d’Estudis Internacionals (Spain). Prior to that, she had been a researcher
at the Jean Monnet European Centre of the University of Trento (Italy). She
has given courses at the University of Trento in the Sociology of International
Relations and the Sociology of European Integration at both Bachelor and
Master levels. her research interests include: European identity, interethnic
relations, the international relations of the EU, European civil society and
regional governance. She is the editor of A Global Security Triangle. Euro-
pean, African and Asian Interaction (Routledge, 2010).
Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka is currently a PhD student at the University
of wrocław and a visiting researcher at the Deusto University in Bilbao. The
title of her doctoral thesis is ‘The evolution of regional participation in the
European policy- making: the case of the Autonomous Community of the
Basque Country’. her areas of research include: regions and multi-l evel gov-
ernance in the European Union; regionalisation and regionalism in Spain and
the European Union; and lobbying and policy networks.
Julie Gilson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and
International Studies at the University of Birmingham. her research to
date has focused on Japanese foreign policy, East Asian regionalism, and