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Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance: Paradigms of Power and Persuasion book cover

1st Edition

Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance Paradigms of Power and Persuasion

Edited By Helen James Copyright 2007
340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

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