Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms

Table of contents

• Restructuring World Politics i
• Social Movements, Protest, and Contention ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Abbreviations xi
• Part I - Theoretical Framework and Issues 1
• 1 - From Santiago to Seattle: Transnational Advocacy Groups Restructuring World Politics 3
• Notes 22
• 2 - Infrastructures for Change: Transnational Organizations, 1953–93 24
• Notes 43
• Part II - Influencing Human Rights Discourse, Policy, and Practice 45
• 3 - Human Rights Norms and Networks in Authoritarian Chile 47
• 4 - Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy 71
• Notes 93
• 5 - Women's Rights Are Human Rights 96
• Notes 119
• 6 - A Human Rights Practitioner's Perspective 123
• Part III - Promoting Development, Environmental Protection, and Governance 129
• 7 - Agendas, Accountability, and Legitimacy Among Transnational Networks Lobbying the World Bank 131
• Notes 153
• 8 - Proclaiming Jubilee: the Debt and Structural Adjustment Network 155
• Notes 179
• 9 - Ngos, Transnational Networks, International Donor Agencies, and the Prospects for Democratic Governance in Indonesia 181
• Notes 201
• 10 - Restructuring the Global Politics of Development: the Case of India's Narmada Valley Dams 206
• Notes 229
• 11 - Globalization, Global Alliances, and the Narmada Movement 231
• Notes 239
• Part IV - Organizing Labor 243
• 12 - Marx and Engels: the Prototypical Transnational Actors 245
• Notes 266
• 13 - Networks in Transnational Labor Organizing 269
• Notes 292
• 14 - A Practitioner's Perspective 294
• Part V - Conclusions 299
• 15 - Restructuring World Politics: the Limits and Asymmetries of Soft Power 301
• Notes 316
• Bibliography 319
• Contributors 353
• Index 357

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