Global Civil Society
Subtitle: Contested Futures (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 7, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780415354806
First sentence: For an increasing number of commentators, global civil society represents nothing less than the outline of a future world political order within which states will no longer constitute the seat of sovereignty, a status first bestowed on them by the Treaty of Westphalia in Europe (1648) and subsequently exported around the globe.