Mary Kaldor & Marlies Glasius 
Global Civil Society 2004/5 

The war in Iraq brought global politics into the living rooms of ordinary people around the world in 2003-4. This defining event, which influenced the domestic agenda in many countries, may change the way people perceive power and the politics of power.

The Global Civil Society Yearbook shows how those perceptions can be shaped by the huge diversity of individuals, movements, NGOs, networks – and the ideas and values they represent – acting across borders and beyond national politics.

Now in its fourth year of publication, the Global Civil Society Yearbook is the standard work on the topic, essential reading for social and political scientists, activists, students, journalists and policy makers.

Global Civil Society 2004/5 adopts an unorthodox approach to major geo-political issues including oil, the Middle East and democracy. Yahia Said examines oil and activism, Mohamed el Said-Sayed explores Middle Eastern perspectives, and Heba Raouf Ezzat outlines a new multicultural approach to global civil society.

The emergence of what Mary Kaldor calls ′a new kind of global politics′ has implications for sovereignty and democracy, which Global Civil Society 2004/5 tackles head-on. Hilary Wainwright identifies the conditions in which global civil society can strengthen and reinvigorate local democracy. In contrast, Kenneth Anderson and David Rieff question global civil society′s claim to represent world opinion, arguing that the hotchpotch of environmental groups, feminist networks and human rights activists are merely undemocratic and unaccountable ′social movement missionaries.′

Global Civil Society 2004-5 includes a wealth of data on globalisation, the rule of law, NGO growth, values and attitudes, governance, civil liberties and a chronology of the myriad protests, conferences and campaigns that are the sinews of global civil society.

‘Global Civil Society 2002 was a gripping read. Global Civil Society 2003 was stimulating, informative and authoritative. I am delighted to recommend this series, which fills an important gap in research on globalisation.’

Anthony Giddens

‘One of the great unreported events of the last decade has been the total explosion of nongovernment organisations in developing countries of the world. While I was shaving the other day, I looked in the mirror and thought, ‘Wow, I am an NGO!’ I have always been interested in this, but I am more interested since I discovered I was one. And that′s why I′d recommend this Yearbook.’

Bill Clinton

Table of Content

Concepts of Global Civil Society

Global Civil Society – Kenneth Anderson and David Rieff

A Skeptical View

Beyond Methodological Modernism – Heba Raouf Ezzat

Towards a Multicultural Paradigm Shift in the Social Sciences

Global Civil Society: an Arab Perspective – Mohamed El-Sayed Said

Issues in Global Civil Society

Global Civil Society: Oil and Activism – Yahia Said

Civil Society, Democracy and Power – Hilary Wainwright

Global Connections

Infrastructure of Global Civil Society

The New Pioneers – Paola Grenier

The People Behind Global Civil Society

Philanthropic Foundations – Helmut Anheier and Siobhan Daly

A New Global Force?

Trade Uunion internationalism and a Global Civil Society in the Making – Peter Waterman and Jill Timms

Records of Global Civil Society

Network Approaches to Global Civil Society – Helmut Anheier and Hagai Katz

Data Programme

Chronology of Global Civil Society Events – Jill Timms

About the author

Helmut K. Anheier, Ph D, is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his Ph D from Yale University in 1986, was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA′s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. He is author of over 400 publications, and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship. Amongst his recent book publications are Nonprofit Organizations – Theory, Management, Policy (London: Routledge, 2014), A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations with David Hammack (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2013) and The Global Studies Encyclopedia with Mark Juergensmeyer (5 vols, Sage, 2012).  He is the principal academic lead of the Hertie School´s annual Governance Report (Oxford University Press, 2013-), and currently working on projects relating to indicator research, social innovation, and success and failure in philanthropy.