Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations

by David Chandler

Global Civil Society is a crucial concept in International Relations today, used as both a description of new mechanisms of non-state actor and NGO engagement in international policy-making and as a normative political project of international change. David Chandler critically investigates the claims made by the advocates of global civil society, analyzing the limits of the concept as a way of describing actual policy processes and the political dynamics behind the search for an international source of collective ethical values and social change.

247 pages, Paperback

First published September 14, 2004

About the author

Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster.