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COPYRIGHT 2007 Professors World Peace Academy
GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY 2006/7
Mary Kaldor, Martin Albrow, Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, editors-in-chief
London & Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007
382 pages, paper, $50.00
From aid to victims of natural disasters to democracy capacity-building to strategic liberatory nonviolence, global transnational civil society has been an increasingly important and highly complex set of players and forces in our shrinking world and in our study of peace and justice. This volume from Sage is a product of the research of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and the allied Center for Civil Society at the University of California, Los Angeles. It is a worthy addition to the reference and analysis bookshelf of every peace professional.
The primary uses of this work are analysis and reference. It is divided into four main sections: Concepts; Issues; Infrastructure; Records. Within the first three sections, violence mitigation and elimination is the overarching theme.
The frames are built in the comprehensive introduction by Martin Albrow and Helmut Anheier in which they take a flinty-eyed look at global civil society and violence, stripping away the dewy-eyed notions of freedom and nonviolent imperatives sometimes associated with civil society exclusively, and noting well that punitive economies, human trafficking, and terrorism also rise from the non-state sectors. In the end,...
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