Charting Transnational Democracy

Part 1. Escaping the Entrapment of Global Arrogance

1. Global Arrogance and the Crisis of Hegemony
Janie Leatherman

2. Outline of a Generic Will: Global Arrogance, Social Movements, and the Net
Julie A. Webber

Part 2. Challenging Arrogance from the Local to the Global

3. Making Democratic Space for Poor People: The Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Diana Zoelle, Jyl J. Josephson

4. The Peaceful Superpower: The Movement against War in Iraq
David Cortright

5. Truth Commissions and U.S. Hegemony
Carlos A. Parodi

6. Environmental Movements in East Central Europe: Between Technocracy and the “Third Way”
Lars K. Hallström

Part 3. Facing the Dangers of Replicating Global Arrogance

7. Challenging and Reinforcing Dominant Myths: Transnational Feminists Use the Internet to Contest the War on Terrorism
Krista Hunt

8. Knowing the Promises, Facing the Challenges: The Role of the Internet in Development and Human Rights Campaigns and Movements in the Arab Middle East
Marlyn Tadros

9. Transnational Environmental Activism after Seattle: Between Emancipation and Arrogance
Kate O’Neill, Stacy D. VanDeveer

10. Global Movement to Ban Landmines: A Case Study in Transformative Politics
Jim L. Nelson

Part 4. Creating Democratic Alternatives

11. The World Social Forum: Arena or Actor?
Teivo Teivainen

12. Making Space for Transnational Democracy
Janie Leatherman

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, International Organization, Political Science, International Relations, Democracy