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Global Civil Society

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In this article, the authors discuss the notion of unfamiliar words and catalysts in the context of cosmocracy, and Ethics across borders across borders, and further reading.
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Preface 1. Unfamiliar words 2. Catalysts 3. Cosmocracy 4. Paradise on Earth? 5. Ethics across borders 6. Further reading.

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The New Transnational Activism

TL;DR: The New Transnational Activism as mentioned in this paper shows how even the most prosaic activities can assume broader political meanings when they provide ordinary people with the experience of crossing transnational space, and this emphasis on activism's relational structure means that transnational activists draw on the resources, the networks and the opportunities in which they are embedded, and only then - if at all - on more distant transnational links.
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The Internet, Public Spheres, and Political Communication: Dispersion and Deliberation

TL;DR: In this paper, the structural, representational, and interactional dimensions of the public sphere are discussed, with a focus on the role of the Internet in the destabilization of political communication systems.
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Spatialities of Globalisation

TL;DR: The focus of as discussed by the authors is on the theorisation of the spatialities of globalisation, shifting the emphasis away from the currently dominant discourse of scalar and territorial relativisation, towards relational processes and network forms of organisation that defy a linear distinction between place and space.
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The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy

TL;DR: The Politics of the Environment as mentioned in this paper provides students with a comprehensive comparative introduction to ideas, activism and policy, including discussion on climate justice, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles, such as demonstrations against fracking.
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From International to World Society?: English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation

TL;DR: Barry Buzan as mentioned in this paper proposes a new theoretical framework that can be used to address globalisation as a complex political interplay among state and non-state actors, and highlights the idea of primary institutions as the central contribution of English school theory.
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Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics

TL;DR: Keck and Sikkink as discussed by the authors examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists for them influential not mean a developmental services ihss provider payments on.
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

TL;DR: The Mystery of Capital as discussed by the authors is one of the most influential books in the history of the world, and it has already led the cognoscenti to put him in the pantheon of great progressive intellectuals of our age.
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Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics

TL;DR: Keck and Sikkink as mentioned in this paper examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists for them influential not mean a developmental services ihss provider payments on.
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Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory

TL;DR: Critical theory as mentioned in this paper allows for a normative choice in favour of a social and political order different from the prevailing order, but it limits the range of choice to alternative orders which are feasible transformations of the existing world.
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Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality

Aihwa Ong
TL;DR: Flexible citizenship: the cultural logics of transnationality Part 1 Emerging modernities 1 The geopolitics of cultural knowledge 2 A "momentary glow of fraternity" Part 2 Regimes and strategies 3 Fengshui and the limits to cultural accumulation 4 The Pacific shuttle: family, citizenship, and capital Part 3 Translocal publics 5 The family romance of madarin capital 6 "A better tomorrow"?: the struggle for global visibility Part 4 Global futures 7 Saying no the West: Liberal reasoning in Asia 8 Zone of new soverignty Afterword: an anthropology of trans