I. INTRODUCTION: THE CONSERVATIVE PRAGMATIC MODEL OF INTERNATIONAL NGOs, OR, TEMPERING NGO EXTREMISM
The attitude of the Bush administration with respect to the vast array of international nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") that now populate the international scene is, of course, in a process of development. Yet while the Bush administration has identified international issues that raise serious questions of American sovereignty, it does not appear to have understood the importance of international NGOs as international actors carrying forward these issues with one political agenda or another-not merely as followers or supporters, but as the driving force with respect to many …