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"Funding Civil Society addresses an important and under-researched
issue: the development of civil society in Russia and the impact
that Western assistance has had on this development. This book is
especially important in identifying variations in regions based on
political environment, and is at the cutting edge of
scholarship."--Sarah E. Mendelson, Senior Fellow, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, coeditor of The Power and
Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern
Europe and Eurasia
"Building on several scholars' previous studies of the foreign
aid/civic organizing nexus, Sundstrom contributes theoretical
insights about the relationship between foreign assistance and
local political opportunity structure. Her extensive research shows
how the intersection of these variables affects the strength of
civic activism. This is an excellent book, and it will be welcomed
by the scholarly and donor communities alike."--Valerie Sperling,
Clark University
Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive
discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their
mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often
refuse to recognize discrimination, a small minority of activists
have exhausted their domestic appeals and then turned to their last
hope: the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR,
located in Strasbourg, France, is widely regarded as the most
effective international human rights court in existence. Russian
citizens whose rights have been violated at home have brought tens
of thousands of cases to the ECtHR over the past two decades. But
only one of these cases resulted in a finding of gender
discrimination by the ECtHR-and that case was brought by a man. By
comparison, the Court has found gender discrimination more
frequently in decisions on Turkish cases. Courting Gender Justice
explores the obstacles that confront citizens, activists, and
lawyers who try to bring gender discrimination cases to court. To
shed light on the factors that make rare victories possible in
discrimination cases, the book draws comparisons among forms of
discrimination faced by women and LGBT people in Russia and Turkey.
Based on interviews with human rights and feminist activists and
lawyers in Russia and Turkey, this engaging book grounds the law in
the personal experiences of individual people fighting to defend
their rights.
Comparative case studies and analyses of the influence of domestic
politics on countries' climate change policies and Kyoto
ratification decisions. Climate change represents a "tragedy of the
commons" on a global scale, requiring the cooperation of nations
that do not necessarily put the Earth's well-being above their own
national interests. And yet international efforts to address global
warming have met with some success; the Kyoto Protocol, in which
industrialized countries committed to reducing their collective
emissions, took effect in 2005 (although without the participation
of the United States). Reversing the lens used by previous
scholarship on the topic, Global Commons, Domestic Decisions
explains international action on climate change from the
perspective of countries' domestic politics. In an effort to
understand both what progress has been made and why it has been so
limited, experts in comparative politics look at the experience of
seven jurisdictions in deciding whether or not to ratify the Kyoto
Protocol and to pursue national climate change mitigation policies.
By analyzing the domestic politics and international positions of
the United States, Australia, Russia, China, the European Union,
Japan, and Canada, the authors demonstrate clearly that decisions
about global policies are often made locally, in the context of
electoral and political incentives, the normative commitments of
policymakers, and domestic political institutions. Using a common
analytical framework throughout, the book offers a unique
comparison of the domestic political forces within each nation that
affect climate change policy and provides insights into why some
countries have been able to adopt innovative and aggressive
positions on climate change both domestically and internationally.
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