Required Readings

Review Heins, Ch. 4

Aston, J.D. (2001). The United Nations Committee on Non-governmental Organizations: Guarding the entrance to a politically divided house. European Journal of International Law 12 (5), 943-962.

Fox, J. (2001). Vertically integrated policy monitoring: A tool for civil society policy advocacy. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 30 (3), 616-627.

Lischer, S.K. (2007). Military intervention and the humanitarian "force multiplier." Global Governance, 13 (1), 99-118.

Smith, S.R. (2003). Governments and nonprofits in the modern age. Society 40 (4), 36-45.

Class Preparation

Additional Resources

Bell, C. & Keenan, J. (2004). Human rights nongovernmental organizations and the problems of transition. Human Rights Quarterly 26 (2), 330-374.

Bernau, B.M. (2006). Help for hotspots: NGO participation in the preservation of worldwide biodiversity. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 13(2), 617-643.

Clark, A.M., Friedman, E.J., & Hochstetler, K. (1998). The sovereign limits of global civil society: A comparison of NGO participation in UN World Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights and Women. World Politics 51 (1), 1-35.

Coston, J.M. (1998). A model and typology of government-NGO relationships. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 27 (3), 358-382

Dingwerth, K. (2008). North-South parity in global governance: The affirmative procedures of the Forest Stewardship Council. Global Governance 14 (1), 53-71.

Finnemore, M. & Sikkink, K. (1998). Internatinoal norm dynamics and political change. International Organization 52 (4), 887-917.

Global Policy Forum is one of several organizations that deals with policy at the United Nations. They have a considerable body of articles and documents (NOT REFEREED, their position statmenets) at http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/state/index.htm

Grugel, J. (2000). Romancing civil society: European NGOs in Latin America. Journal of Interamerican Studies & World Affairs 42(2), 87-107.

Hill, F., Aboitiz, M. & Poehlman-Doumbouya, S. (2003). Nongovernmental organizations' role in the buildup and implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325. Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 (4), 1255-1269.

Moore, L. (2001). Legitimation issues in state-nonprofit relationship. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 30 (4), 707-719.

Price, R. (1998). Reversing the bun sights: Transnational civil society targets land mines. International Organization 52 (3), 613-644.

Skocpol, T., Ganz, M. & Munson, Z. (2000). A nation of organizers: The institutional origins of civic voluntarism in the United States. American Political Science Review 94(3), 527-546.

Stone, D. (2000). Think tank transnationalisatin and non-profit analysis, advice and advocacy. Global Society 14 (2), 153-172.