World Society Focus Papers

Civil Society

• K. R. Lakshmy Devi: Multinational Corporations, Development Discontent and Civil Society: The Pathology of the People's Movement Against Coca-Cola in India. [Download PDF]

• Brigitte Geissel: Transnational Networks of Local and Global Civil Society as Response to New Challenges. [Download PDF]

• Mark Herkenrath: Civil Society: Local and Regional Responses to Global Challenges: An Introduction. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/I)

• Hagai Katz: Global Civil Society Networks and Counter-Hegemony. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/I)

• Jeffrey Kentor and Eric Mielants: Connecting the Global and Local: The Impact of Globalization on Civil Society From 1990 to the Present. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/I)

• R. Patricio Korzeniewicz and María Esperanza Casullo: Protesters, Participants and Politicians: Civil Society and Democratization in Latin America. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/I)

• Daniel Künzler: The “Lost Generation”: African Hip Hop Movements and the Protest of the Young (Male) Urban. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/I)

• Manjusha S. Nair: Defining Indigeneity: Situating Transnational Knowledge. [Download PDF]

• P. P. Pillai: Democratic Decentralization, Participatory Development and Civil Society. The Story of People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning in India. [Download PDF]

• Michael Schiltz, Gert Verschraegen, and Stefano Magnolo: Associative Self-Governance, Open Access and Global Civil Society. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/I)

• Markus S. Schulz: The Role of the Internet in Transnational Mobilization: A Case Study of the Zapatista Movement, 1994-2005. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/I)

• Keri Iyall Smith: The Impact of Indigenous Hybridity on the Formation of World Society. [Download PDF]

• Bettina Woll: Civil Society Participation, the New Mantra in Foreign Development Assistance: Evidence from Bolivia. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/I)

The Regional Shaping of World Society

• Matthew Cannon: Cross-border Regionalism: Co-operative Europeanisation or Competitive Gloablisation? [Download PDF]

• Xiangming Chen: Economic Glocalizing, Regional Embedding, and State Scaling: A Comparative Analysis of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta in China. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)

• Yves Alexandre Chouala: The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project and the Making of World Society in Central Africa. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)

• John Gulick: Northeast Asian Competition for Russian Far East Natural Resources Possibilities of Russo-Chinese Geo-economic Integration. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)

• Mark Herkenrath: The Regional and Local Shaping of World Society: An Introduction. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)

• David Newman: World Society, Globalization and a Borderless World: The Contemporary Significance of Borders and Territory. [Download PDF]

• Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson: How ‘Global’ is Economic Globalization? (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)

• Laura Robinson: Nationalism and Transnationalism: Brazilian, French, and American Online Communities Respond to 9/11. [Download PDF]

• Amir Sheikhzadegan: Islam in the World System. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)

• Martha C.E. Van Der Bly: The Resilience of Cultural Diversity: Reinventing Local Identity in Ireland as the “Gesamt” Creation of Enterprise, State and Civil Society. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)

• Dawn Wiest and Jackie Smith: Globalization, Regionalism, and the Organization of Transnational Collective Action within World Regions, 1980-2000. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)

• Patrick Ziltener: East Asia: Structure and Formation of a World Region. (Published in World Society Studies 2007/II)