Damming is a controversial issue as it can lead to communities losing their land, and cause a series of environmental impacts that affect ecosystems.
The goal of abolishing the death penalty is a contemporary example of how initiatives backed by civil society organisations can have lasting impact.
Members of the E-International Relations podcast team speak about what they have been reading recently as part of ‘The Laid-Back Book Club’.
The presence of civil society organisations has become increasingly relevant within the global system, changing its nature due to their involvement and activism across a range of areas.
Transcalar advocacy transcends different scales of action, such as the regional or national, and discards many prior assumptions about advocacy.
Totalizing moral binaries are particularly dangerous in the sphere of international relations, where international law lacks universal mechanisms of enforcement.
Working with civil society and social movement partners and with allies in IGOs, transnational feminist activism spans local, national, regional, and global terrains, and has become a fixture of world politics.
COVID-driven contractions in foreign and government funding for civil society organisations need not undermine the health of the civil society sector.
COVID-19 has provided new opportunities for transnational advocacy and the promotion of alternative ways of life, having brought to attention the failures of existing structures in world politics.
The NGO research community should resist attempts by the still-state-centric International Relations subfield to caricature the complex dynamics of NGO-state relations.
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