1st Edition
Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance Paradigms of Power and Persuasion
This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics.
The contributors examine salient aspects of the secular state whose monopoly on, and control of, institutional violence has reified its use of power to such an extent that the modernistic separation of church and state is being called into question, as institutional limits are sought to the abuse of that power. The volume is clearly divided into six key sections:
- human security and human rights
- the politics of civil religion
- the ethics of civil development
- civil society and global governance
- cross-cultural perspectives on institutional development for civil society
- international civil society.
Within these sections the illuminating case studies span a wide geographical extent from Central and Eastern Europe to Egypt, to Latin America, Iran, Bangladesh, Australia, the Pacific and East and Southeast Asia.
Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance will be of strong interest to students, policy makers and researchers in the fields of human rights, religion, political science and sociology.
Preface
Lawrence Cram
1 Introduction: Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance - the Power and Persuasiveness of Civil Society
Helen James
PART I – HUMAN SECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
2 National security: proportionality, restraint and commonsense
Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, AC CMG
3 Human security, identity politics and global governance: from freedom from fear to fear of freedoms
Amitav Acharya
4 A Transcivilisational perspective on global issues: a way to overcome Euro-
America-centric discourse on world affairs in the twenty-first century
Yasuaki Onuma
PART II – THE POLITICS OF CIVIL RELIGION
5 The Anglican Church, the state and modern warfare
Philip Towle
6 Religion and the destruction of Aboriginal society: the paradox of Australian Indigenous civil societies
Gordon Briscoe, AO
7 Church-State relations in post-communist countries: the idea of path dependency may have something useful to tell us
Robert F Miller
PART III – THE ETHICS OF CIVIL DEVELOPMENT
8 War and the Role of Religion in a global civil society
Joseph Runzo
9 Citizenship as consumption or citizenship as agency? The challenge for Latin American civil society
Philip Oxhorn
10 Corruption, Governance and Transcultural Interaction
Seumas Miller
PART IV – CIVIL SOCIETY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: PANACEA OR PROBLEMATIQUE?
11 Post-secular civil society
Wayne Hudson
12 Christian Custom and the Church as Structure in ‘Weak States’ in
Melanesia
Bronwen Douglas
13 Governance, Civil Society and Economic Development: a view from the
Pacific
Ron Duncan
PART V – CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR CIVIL SOCIETY
14 Community Development and Globalisation
Isagani Serrano
15 Confronting Burma/Myanmar’s Security Dilemma: an integrated approach to national and human security issues
Zar Ni
16 The Iranian Fertility Transition: the influences of religion and ethnicity
Peter McDonald and Md Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi
17 Faith, NGOs and the politics of secularism in Bangladesh
Bina D’Costa
PART VI – INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY: PROSPECTS FOR ENHANCING HUMAN SECURITY
18 Global civil society and the international trade regime
He Baogang and Hannah Murphy
19 Kifaya as Political Culture: the 7 September 2005 elections in Egypt
Jacky Angus
20 Civil society, religion and good governance: the Indonesian case
Azyumardi Azra
21 Conclusion: Paradigms of a More Civil Society
Helen James
Biography
Helen James
