Non-Governmental Organizations in World Politics

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Amnesty International and Oxfam to Greenpeace and Save the Children are now key players in global politics. This informative text provides a comprehensive overview of the significant role of NGOs in world politics. Peter Willetts analyzes the variety of dif [...]
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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Amnesty International and Oxfam to Greenpeace and Save the Children are now key players in global politics. This informative text provides a comprehensive overview of the significant role of NGOs in world politics. Peter Willetts analyzes the variety of different NGOs, their structure, membership and activities and their complex relationship with social movements and civil society. How NGOs influence global policy-making and how they function within the UN system is explained, as well as the lack of discussion of NGOs within mainstream international relations theory.