TY  - BOOK
TI  - Nongovernmental organizations in international society: struggles over recognition
AU  - Heins, Volker
PY  - 2010
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
LA  - eng
KW  - Non-governmental organizations
AB  - Introduction: nailing down a moving target -- What is distinctive about NGOs? -- Post-traditional civil associations -- Struggles over recognition -- Misleading analogies -- Benign parasitism -- Summary -- Why did NGOs emerge and prosper? -- A moral sea change -- Spurring the growth -- Top-down internationalization -- Passion and professionalization -- Summary -- What are NGOs actually doing? -- Abolitionism as a moral template -- Changing narratives of good and evil -- (re)writing rules for the world -- Taming and backing the sovereigns -- Summary -- Where do NGOs seek involvement? -- Shifting issue areas -- Shifting scales -- The humanitarian presence -- Futures of humanitarian action -- Summary -- How do NGOs succeed (or fail)? -- Meanings of success -- Keys to success -- Inner and outer limits -- Should we wish them success? -- Summary -- Conclusion: paradoxes of organized goodness -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
SP  - XI, 211 S.
ET  - 1. publ., [Nachdr.]
SN  - 0230600360
SN  - 9780230600362
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-1602992770
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -