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Social SciencesInternational RelationsPolitical ScienceDemocratizationGlobalizationInternational OrganizationsCivil SocietyGlobal StudiesNon-governmental OrganizationsPolitical OrganizationUnited Nations SystemCivil Society TheoryCivil Society TransnationalismComparative Civil SocietyDemocratic StateTransnational Civil Society
This chapter aims to raise scepticism about both the conceptual and the practical foundations of ‘global civil society’. We describe, and then challenge, a widely received, standard account of what it means for