Bottom-Up Politics

1. Introduction: Agency in Global Bottom-Up Politics
Denisa Kostovicova, Marlies Glasius

Part I. Global Civil Society: An Emerging Reality

2. Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents
Daniele Archibugi, David Held

3. The Umma: From Global Civil Society to Global Public Sphere
Heba Raouf Ezzat

4. Civility and Global Civil Society: The Missing Link
Helmut K. Anheier

5. Cosmopolitan Intimacies and Sexual Politics in Global Civil Society
Hakan Seckinelgin

6. Dissident Writings: Prefiguring Global Civil Society?
Marlies Glasius

Part II. Human Security: From States to People

7. External Statebuilding and Transnational Networks: The Limits of the Civil Society Approach
Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic

8. A Bottom-Up Approach to Redressing Past Violations of Human Rights
Christine Chinkin, Iavor Rangelov

9. The Degeneration of Cosmopolitan Wars
Mient Jan Faber

10. From Counter-Force to Human Security? Experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan
Marika Theros, Yahia Said

11. Peace and the People: How the European Union Rewrites Security
Genevieve Schmeder, Mary Martin

Part III. Bottom-Up Globalization

12. Appropriating Normative Geopolitics: Civil Society International Law and the Future of the United Nations
Richard Falk

13. Chipko and Grameen Bank: Women’s Responses of Resistance and Accommodation with Capital
Meghnad Desai

14. Globalization and the Study of Global Politics from Below: Preparing the Ground for an Alternative Approach
Sabine Selchow

15. Against All Odds: The Urbanizing of Human Security?
Saskia Sassen

16. Old New Wars: Global History from Below
Emma Rothschild

17. Conclusion: Can Global Civil Society Answer the Hobbesian Problem?
Martin Albrow

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, International Relations, Development Studies, Political Science, Human Rights, Globalization