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Constructing World Culture - International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875 (Paperback)
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Constructing World Culture - International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875 (Paperback)
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This book illuminates the central role played by international
nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and
development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue
that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875--including
international environmental organizations, human rights groups,
bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic
development organizations, among others--both reflects and
contributes to the spread of global institutions and cultural
principles based on models of rationality, individualism, progress,
and universalism. The contributors contrast this world-polity
perspective to other approaches to understanding globalization,
including realist and neo-realist analyses in the field of
international relations, and world-system theory and interstate
competition theory in sociology.
The volume considers transnational organizing as a historical
process of the creation of global rules and norms, changing over
time, that have identifiable effects on social organization at the
national and local levels. The chapters provide empirical support
for this approach, identifying specific mechanisms that translate
global cultural assumptions and prescriptions into local social
activity, such as the creation of state agencies, the formulation
of government policies, and the emergence of social movements. The
first part of the book deals with social movement INGOs, including
environmental groups, women's rights organizations, the Esperanto
movement, and the International Red Cross. The second part treats
technical and economic bodies, including the International
Organization for Standardization, population policy groups,
development organizations, and international professional science
associations.
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