Constructing world culture
Subtitle: international nongovernmental organizations since 1875
By: edited by John Boli and George M. Thomas.
Contributors: Boli, John, 1948-; Thomas, George M.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Non-governmental organizations -- History -- 20th century; International relations -- History -- 20th century; Internationalism -- History -- 20th century
Description: This book illuminates the central role played by international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and development of a comprehensive world polity.

The contributors argue that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875 - including environmental organizations, human rights groups, bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic development organizations, among others - both reflects and contributes to the spread of global institutions and cultural principles based on models of rationality, individualism, progress, and universalism.

The contributors contrast this world-polity perspective to other approaches to understanding globalization, including realist and neo-realist analyses in the field of international relations, and world-system theory and interstate competition theory in sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-355) and index.