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Title: Globalization: The Final Countdown A Siobhan and Chris Production


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Globalization The Final CountdownA Siobhan
and Chris Production
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Local and Global
  • International Governance and Civil Society
  • Julie Fisher

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Julie Fisher
  • Based in the USA
  • Worked for the Kettering Foundation
  • Asks what does it take to make democracy work as
    it should
  • Democracy requires
  • citizens who accept their public responsibility
    and are able to make sound judgments about public
    issues
  • healthy communities that encourage citizens to
    act together

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Purpose
  • To discuss function of NGOs within the state
  • Discuss interactions of governments and civil
    societies in the developing world
  • This is a way of strengthening democracy,
    supporting sustainable development and reducing
    the number of failed states

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Definitions
  • GRO Grassroots Organization
  • GRSO Grassroots Support Organization
  • NGO Non-governmental Organization

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Assumptions
  • All politics are local
  • The failed state has become the Achilles heel of
    the emerging international community
  • NGOs and GROs must function within state
    framework
  • NGOs are perceived of differently in different
    countries
  • Transformationalist Perspective
  • Agents NGOs, social movements, state
  • Emphasis on knowledge and technology
  • Globalization can be guided for good
  • Democracy
  • Human Rights
  • Efficient, accountable governance

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Main Concepts
  • Autonomy
  • Organizational Autonomy
  • Freedom to make decisions with minimal external
    constraints
  • Restricted to upwards relationships
  • Accountability
  • GROs must be accountable to their
    members/constituents
  • Accountable to donors
  • Civil Society
  • Includes markets, associations, and a sphere of
    public debate
  • What happens within civil society therefore has
    the potential to reshape the political contexts
    that prevent governments from building on and
    learning from the creative energies of NGOs
  • We prefer
  • Process through which individuals negotiate,
    argue, struggle against or agree with each other
    and with the centres of political and economic
    authority. Through voluntary associations,
    movements, parties, unions, the individual is
    able to act publicly

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National Political Context
  • Type of Regime
  • Degree of state capacity and stability
  • Political Culture
  • Reflexive proliferation of NGOs
  • Health of political culture reflects on
    development of NGOs
  • Individual attitudes and orientations towards
    politics among members of a system
  • Unique to each country/area

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Regional Comparison
  • Latin America
  • More consistently autonomous
  • Reshapes political systems
  • NGOs carved out space not available to opposition
    parties
  • Asia
  • NGO relationships are largely determined by
    government and its strategies
  • Governments have started recognizing advantages
    of cooperative/collaborative development
    strategies
  • Co-optation a problem
  • NGOs as a threat
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Dictatorships generally repress NGOs
  • Single party (Zimbabwe and Kenya)
  • Accept service-providers
  • Restrain empowerment
  • Use NGOs for positive publicity

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Main Arguments
  • Relationship between civil society and the state
    may in the long run help determine whether a
    particular country will contribute to or
    undermine collective efforts, however inchoate,
    to enhance stability, democracy, and living
    conditions at the global level
  • The state is failing and we require GROs who are
    independent and accountable to stabilize the
    international community
  • International governance is built at the national
    level and can only be developed by engaging local
    communities
  • Civil society and the state can enhance global
    stability

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Five Keys to Autonomy
  • Strong Grassroots Ties
  • Clear Self-Conscious Organizational Commitment
  • Diversified Financial Support
  • Strong Technical, Managerial and Strategic
    Knowledge about Development
  • Staff Experience in Training Government
    Professionals

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Some Critiques
  • Important terms are left undefined
  • Article is redundant to anyone with any
    experience with NGOs
  • Gives few concrete points, and instead cites
    endless examples
  • Organizationally lacking
  • Lack of coherence
  • Poor conclusion
  • We ask What were the main points the article
  • p25 the dominance of Islam has prevented the
    development of civil society in the middle east
  • The religion of Islam already encompasses civil
    society
  • It is a complete way of life
  • Perhaps civil society has been stifled by
    authoritarian governments and fundamentalist
    movements

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Conclusions
  • Normative Prescriptions
  • Take account of the wide range of political
    system, cultures, governments and differences
    within governments in formulating policies to
    support and strengthen what people are already
    doing
  • Understand that what happens within civil society
    enhances self rule at the local level
  • Two new and important trends
  • Domestic and transnational organizations or
    social movements can unite to bring pressure on
    governments
  • NGOs are increasingly focusing on democracy and
    may become increasingly crucial in creating
    effective governance at all levels

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Discussion Questions
  • How can NGOs be expected to function
    internationally when they are given no legal
    status and are expected to function based within
    national boundaries?
  • Should this be expected?
  • How do we reconcile the role of the state with
    the role of international civil society, given
    that NGOs (part of ICS) are taking on more
    state-like roles?

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