Social movements for global democracy /
Jackie Smith.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- xiii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Themes in global social change .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-279) and index.
Contested globalizations -- Rival transnational networks -- Politics in a global system -- Globalizing capitalism : the transnational neoliberal network in action -- Promoting multilateralism : social movements and the UN system -- Mobilizing a transnational network for democratic globalization -- Agenda setting in a global polity -- Domesticating international human rights norms -- Confronting contradictions between multilateral economic institutions and the UN system -- Alternative political spaces : the world social forum process and "globalization from below" -- Conclusion: Network politics and global democracy.