Course Description

Examines the theoretical and practical challenges NGOs and other stakeholders encounter in an emerging global civil society. Language of instruction differs by year.

グローバル化する世界を市民の立場から理解するとどうなるのか。様々なNGOや社会運動などが構築する地球市民社会の理論と実践について概観する。開講年度によって、開講言語が異なる。

This lecture introduces “Transnational Advocacy Networks”, how the emerged, what tactics and activities their use, and what their strength and weaknesses are. The lecture will introduce the following concepts and exemplify them in real campaigns, actors, and tactics.

1. How have they emerged?

Boomerang Patterns

Political Entrepreneurs

International Contact/Exchange

2. How do they work / influence?

Information Politics

Symbolic Politics

Leverage Politics

Accountability Politics

3. Conditions (for success)

Issue Characteristics

Actor Characteristics

Reading:

Transnational Advocacy Networks, in: Keck, Margaret,E., and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. Activists beyond borders: Advocacy networks in international politics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press (Chapter 1), pp. 1-38 [Moodle]