Author: Christopher L. Pallas Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817321144 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
The types of actors involved in transnational advocacy have diversified. Northern NGOs have lost power and influence and been restricted in their access to southern states. Southern NGOs have developed a capacity to undertake advocacy on their own and often built closer relationships with their own governments. International institutions have become more open to southern NGOs and more skeptical of southern NGOs' claims to speak for southern populations. The result is that the boomerang theory, although still useful, no longer provides the broad explanation for advocacy. A wealth of recent articles (many by contributors to this volume) showed a growing scholarly recognition of the need for new theory. "Beyond the Boomerang" offers cutting-edge scholarship and synthesizes a new theoretical framework to develop a coherent, integrated picture of the current dynamics in global advocacy. .
Author: Margaret E. Keck Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801471281 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 240
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Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.
Author: Stuart Schrader Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520968336 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 413
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From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home. In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical assistance—and how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A “smoking gun” book, Badges without Borders offers a new account of the War on Crime, “law and order” politics, and global counterinsurgency, revealing the connections between foreign and domestic racial control.
Author: Tyler Smith Publisher: ISBN: 9780578643779 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
If there was a guest follow-up system being used by over 17,000 church leaders, would you be intrigued? If church leaders were seeing first-time guest attendance and guest retention far surpassing the national average, would you want to know what they're doing? If there was a 3-step framework for building a guest follow-up system that creates more connection among members and guests and frees up more time among church staff and volunteers, would you give it a try?Spoiler alert: there is.Boomerang is the key to successful and sustainable church guest follow-up. Here's what you will find in Boomerang:*The proven 3-step framework of gather, connect, build*The actual follow up messages and strategies used by thousands of churches all across the country that are seeing incredible growth*The process of building a follow-up system that will work for you, freeing up more of your time to do what got you into ministry in the first placeBoomerang isn't like any other church growth book. There are no theories or hypotheticals. It is packed full of practical, proven, and strategic steps your church can start implementing right away.
Author: Michael Lewis Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393082245 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 182
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“Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.”—Kyle Smith, Forbes The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.
Author: Orly Wahba Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 125006693X Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 383
Book Description
The first book by the creator of the Kindness Boomerang video (more than 20,000,000 views on YouTube) shows readers how to make kindness something they can practice every day.
Author: Gordon Jack Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062399411 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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A hilariously subversive YA debut that explores the meaning of friendship and loyalty, and also why you should avoid being trapped in a small space with an angry chicken. Perfect for fans of Andrew Smith’s Winger and Frank Portman’s King Dork. It all started with a harmless prank. But now high school junior Lawrence Barry is one step away from reform school unless he participates in a mentorship program. His mentee? Spencer Knudsen, a Norwegian exchange student with Spock-like intelligence but the social skills of the periodic table. Then disaster strikes. Homecoming Week. When someone dressed as the school Viking mascot starts destroying the fairytale-inspired floats, all suspicion falls on Lawrence. Add to the mix a demon Goth girl, a Renaissance LARPing group, an overzealous yearbook editor, and three vindictive chickens, and Lawrence soon realizes that his situation may be a little out of control. But Spencer seems to have some answers. In fact, Spencer may be the one friend Lawrence never knew he needed.
Author: Victoria Rawlings Publisher: Sydney University Press ISBN: 1743327587 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 145
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The concept of community-led research has taken off in recent years in a variety of fields, from archaeology and anthropology to social work and everything in between. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, this book considers what it means to participate in community-led research, for both communities and researchers. How can researchers and communities work together well, and how can research be reimagined using the knowledge of First Nations peoples and other communities to ensure it remains relevant, sustainable, socially just and inclusive?
Author: Margaret E. Keck Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801484568 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 244
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The conventions of the nation-state have shaped our contemporary understanding of the process and politics of social movements. Keck and Sikkink sketch for the first time the dynamics of emergence, strategies, and impact of activists from different nationalities working together on particular issues. This eagerly awaited work will alter the way scholars conceptualize the making of international society and the practice of international politics.
Author: Christopher L. Pallas
Author: Margaret E. Keck
Author: Stuart Schrader
Author: Tyler Smith
Author: Michael Lewis
Author: Orly Wahba
Author: Gordon Jack
Author: Stephen Graham
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Author: Margaret E. Keck