Required Readings

V. Heins (Nongovernmental Organizations in International Society), Ch. 1

M. Feher (Nongovernmental Politics), pp. 12-30

Simmons, P.J. (1998). Learning to live with NGOs. Foreign Policy 112 (Fall), 82-96. (You may have to retrieve this yourself through UF library services because I submitted it late to the e-reserve.)

Martens, K. (2002). Mission impossible? Defining nongovernmental organizations. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 13 (3), 271-285. (You may have to retrieve this yourself through UF library services because I submitted it late to the e-reserve.)

Class Preparation

Read the core readings prior to class and be prepared to discuss them in our first class session.

Select your topic for the topical analysis (see syllabus). I will record these in our first class.

Additional Resources

The home page provides links to sources of information about NGOs. Some of the sites have broken links in them (sorry), but I would encourage you to browse through some of this information.