Political Science/International Relations

“Excellent chapters by activists, policy makers, and scholars make this book a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the role of transnational social movement organizations and the transformation of international relations.” Craig Murphy, Wellesley College

A primary goal of transnational advocacy is to create, strengthen, implement, and monitor international norms. How transnational networks go about doing this, why and when they succeed, and what problems and complications they face are the main themes of this book. Looking at a wide range of cases where nongovernmental actors attempt to change norms and the practices of states, organizations, and firms in the private sector-from debt restructuring to protecting human rights, from anti-dam projects in India to the prodemocracy movement in Indonesia-the authors compellingly depict international nongovernmental organizations and transnational social movements as considerable, emerging powers in international politics, initiating, facilitating, and directing the transformation of global norms and practices.

Contributors: Karen Brown Thompson, Charles T. Call, Elizabeth A. Donnelly, Darren Hawkins, Thalia G. Kidder, Smitu Kothari, Paul J. Nelson, August Nimtz, Mark Ritchie, Jackie Smith, Daniel C. Thomas.

Sanjeev Khagram is assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

James V. Riker is coordinator of the Nonprofit Leadership and Democracy Project at the Union Institute in Washington, D.C.

Kathryn Sikkink is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.

Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 14

University of Minnesota Press
Printed in U.S.A.
Cover design by Jeanne Lee
Cover photograph by David E. Ortman.