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Borders among Activists
Contributor(s): Stroup, Sarah S. (Author)

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ISBN: 080145073X     ISBN-13: 9780801450730
Publisher: Cornell University Press
OUR PRICE: $56.65  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Ngos (non-governmental Organizations)
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism
Dewey: 341.2
LCCN: 2011042190
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.1" L (1.05 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 12/01/2012
 
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In Borders among Activists, Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world--international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)--organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy, and deliver services.

Stroup offers detailed profiles of these varieties of activism in the United States, Britain, and France. These three countries are the most popular bases for INGOs, but each provides a very different environment for charitable organizations due to differences in legal regulations, political opportunities, resources, and patterns of social networks. Stroup's comparisons of leading American, British, and French INGOs--Care, Oxfam, Médecins sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and FIDH--reveal strong national patterns in INGO practices, including advocacy, fund-raising, and professionalization. These differences are quite pronounced among INGOs in the humanitarian relief sector, and are observable, though less marked, among human rights INGOs.

Stroup finds that national origin helps account for variation in the transnational advocacy networks that have received so much attention in international relations. For practitioners, national origin offers an alternative explanation for the frequently lamented failures of INGOs in the field: INGOs are not inherently dysfunctional, but instead remain disconnected because of their strong roots in very different national environments.


Contributor Bio(s): Stroup, Sarah S.: - Sarah S. Stroup is Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. She is the author of Borders among Activists, also from Cornell.
 
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