Government–NGO Relationships in Africa, Asia, Europe and MENA
This volume brings together some of the most recent scholarship on government and civil society. It examines the axis of the relationship between national governments and civil society organisations (NGOs) by highlighting commonalities as well as differences among four key regions in the world. Using the stability vs. instability framework, the book explores a range of pertinent issues, including human rights, development, foreign policy, state-building, regime change, governance frameworks, wars and civil liberties. It studies diverse situations, from those entailing comprehensive cooperation to those involving politically contentious and revolutionary activities.
With case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of political science, global politics, international relations, sociology, development studies, global governance and public policy, as well as to those in the development sector and NGOs.
Raffaele Marchetti is Senior Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and the School of Government at LUISS, Rome, Italy. He has a PhD from the London School of Economics and his research interests concern global politics and transnational civil society. He also acts as an external expert for the European Commission and other public and private institutions on issues of governance, public policies, NGOs and security. In 2015, he produced one of the first MOOCs on IR for Iversity. In the past, he was rapporteur for the European Commission on Civil Society in Global Governance, and received the Lawrence S. Finkelstein Award from the International Studies Association (ISA). Among his publications are Global Strategic Engagement: State and Non-state Actors in Global Governance (2016); Partnerships in International Policy-Making: Civil Society and Public Institutions in European and Global Affairs (edited, 2016); Contemporary Political Agency (co-edited with B. Maiguashca, 2013); Global Democracy (co-edited with D. Archibugi and M. Koenig-Archibugi, 2011); Civil Society, Ethnic Conflicts, and the Politicization of Human Rights (co-edited with N. Tocci, 2011); Conflict Society and Peacebuilding (co-edited with N. Tocci, 2011); and Global Democracy: For and Against (2008).