Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs

323 Pages·2017·5.34 MB·English

by  Raffaele Marchetti (eds.)

PARTNERSHIPS IN
INTERNATIONAL
POLICY-MAKING
CIVIL SOCIETY AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
IN EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS

EDITED BY
Raffaele Marchetti
International Series on Public Policy
International Series on Public Policy
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B. Guy Peters
Maurice Falk Professor of Government
University of Pittsburgh
USA and Professor of Comparative Governance, 
Zeppelin University, Germany
Philippe Zittoun
Research Professor of Political Science
LET-ENTPE
University of Lyon, France
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Raffaele Marchetti
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Partnerships in
International
Policy-Making
Civil Society and Public Institutions
in European and Global Affairs
Editor
Raffaele Marchetti
LUISS
Roma, Italy
International Series on Public Policy
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C
ontents
Part I Context 1
1 International Policy Partnerships with Civil Society:
Risks and Opportunities 3
Raffaele Marchetti
2 The Limits of Global Governance: Transnational
Neopluralism in a Complex World 31
Philip G. Cerny
Part II Global 49
3 How Participatory is Global Governance of Trade
and Environment? The Cases of WTO and UN
Climate Summits 51
Marcel Hanegraaff and Arlo Poletti
4 Civil Society-Public Institution Relations in Global
Food Policy: The Case of FAO and the CFS 71
Nora McKeon
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vi CONTENTS
5 Policy Engagement and Civil Society: The Case
of IFAD 89
Lauren M. Phillips
6 Can Human Rights NGOs Be Trusted in the Corridors
of the United Nations and International Criminal
Justice Institutions? 107
Lyal S. Sunga
7 Civil Society and the UN Security Council:
Advocacy on the Rwandan Genocide 131
Kseniya Oksamytna
Part III EU 147
8 Asymmetric Patterns in the Civil Society’s Access
to the European Commission: The Cases of DG
FISMA and DG TRADE 149
Giuseppe Montalbano
9 European Commission’s Sing-along: Civil Society
as a Last Resort in the European Union Emissions
Trading Scheme Debate—The Case DG CLIMA 175
Pawel Pustelnik
10 Civil Society in the EU Development and Human
Rights Agenda: The Case of DG DEVCO-EIDHR 195
Chiara Pierobon
11 From Window-dressing to Windows of Opportunity:
Civil Society Actors in the EU Security
Regime—The Case of DG HOME 215
Georgios Kolliarakis
CONTENTS vii
12 NGOs and the EU’s Responses to Emergencies
and Crises. An Analysis of ECHO’s and Member
States’ Support 237
Daniela Irrera
Part IV Controversies 255
13 Foreign Government Support for Threatened
Civil Societies: Helpful or Harmful? 257
Clifford Bob
14 Foreign Policy by Proxy: Democracy and Human
Rights Promotion through an Engagement with 
Civil Society 275
Raffaele Marchetti
15 Feeding the Trojan Horse: International Aid Policies
in support to NGOs (1990–2015) 293
Igor Pellicciari
Erratum E1
Index 311
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ist of ontributors
Clifford Bob has been Professor and Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair in
International Relations, Department of Political Science and Graduate Center for
Social and Public Policy, Duquesne University since 2012. His publications include
The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (2012) and The Marketing of
Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism (2005). Bob has recently
served as a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations at
Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.
Philip G. Cerny is Professor Emeritus of Politics and Global Affairs at the
University of Manchester and Rutgers University-Newark. He has taught at the
Universities of York and Leeds, and has been a visiting scholar or professor at
Harvard University, Sciences Po (Paris), Dartmouth College, New York University
and the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Politics of Grandeur:
Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle’s Foreign Policy (1980), The Changing Architecture
of Politics: Structure, Agency and the Future of the State (1990) and Rethinking
World Politics: A Theory of Transnational Neopluralism (2010). His most recent
edited book is Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the
Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism (2005). He received the Distinguished
Scholar Award of the I.P.E. Section of the International Studies Association
in 2011 and chairs Research Committee No. 36 (Political Power) of the
International Political Science Association.
Marcel Hanegraaff is Assistant Professor in political science at the University of
Amsterdam. His PhD dissertation focused on explaining the development transna-
tional interest group communities, as well as the strategic action by interest groups
in the context of global governance. He researches the politics of interest represen-
tation in a transnational and EU context, as well as the functioning of international
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organizations in the fields of climate change and global trade. His work has
appeared in World Trade Review (2011), and is scheduled for 2016 publication in
Comparative Political Studies, Global Environmental Politics, and Global
Governance.
Daniela Irrera is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Catania
and Visiting Fellow at the Stony Brook University, New York; Clinton Institute for
American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland; University of Delaware;
Université Libre de Bruxelles; University of Oxford; New Bulgarian University,
Sofia, Metropolitan University, Prague; Dogus University, Istanbul; National
University Singapore. She is Member of the executive committee of the Standing
Group on Organised Crime, European Consortium for Political Research. She has
published in the areas of International Relations and EU politics, dealing with
global terrorism, transnational organized crime, civil society and humanitarian
affairs. Her most recent publication is NGOs, Crisis Management and Conflict
Resolution (2013).
Georgios Kolliarakis is a senior researcher at the Institute for Political Science at
the Goethe University Frankfurt and is a member of the Cluster of Excellence
‘Normative Orders’. He undertakes research on organizational and strategic
aspects of security policies, with a particular focus on non-intended impacts.
Georgios advises a number of international organizations, and has launched and
chaired more than 20 panels at academic and policy conferences. His publications
include Politics and Insecurity. Strategies in a changing Security Culture (in
German, 2014), Recognition in International Relations. Rethinking a Political
Concept in a Global Context (2015), and In Quest of Reflexivity: Towards an
Anticipatory Governance Regime for Security (2016 forthcoming).
Raffaele Marchetti is Senior Assistant Professor in International Relations (IR) at
the Department of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS. His
research interest concerns global politics and transnational civil society. He also
acts as external expert for the European Commission and other public/private
institutions on issues of governance, public policies, NGOs, and peace-building.
In 2015 he produced one of the first MOOCs on IR for Iversity. Previously he was
rapporteur for the European Commission on Civil Society in Global Governance,
and received the Lawrence S. Finkelstein Award by the International Studies
Association-ISA. “Among his publications are: Governments and NGOs in Africa,
Asia, Europe and Middle East (ed., forth 2017); Global Strategic Engagement.
States and Non-State Actors in Global Governance (2016); Contemporary
Political Agency (co-ed. with B. Maiguashca, 2013); Global Democracy (2011,
co-ed. with D. Archibugi and M. Koenig-Archibugi); Civil Society, Ethnic
Conflicts, and the Politicization of Human Rights (co-ed. with N. Tocci, 2011) ;
Conflict Society and Peacebuilding (2011, co-ed. with N. Tocci); Global
Democracy: For and Against (2008).”.