NGOs in International Politics

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Kumarian Press, Incorporated, 2006 - History - 285 pages
Non-governmental organizations have gained a great deal of popularity in recent years. The awarding of the Nobel Prize to The International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1997 and to Medicins Sans Frontieres in 1999 has highlighted the emergence of these organizations as "new" forces in international politics. Yet, there is no work to date that has provided an overview of the varieties of interaction between NGOs and states, international organizations and in international politics. This is especially true of books aimed at undergraduates.

NGOs in International Politics surveys a range of NGO activities and relationships in a manner accessible to students in the classroom. Despite the gap in the textbook literature, non-governmental organizations are being taught in undergraduate courses, either in theoretical terms or as components of service learning. This book is designed to remedy the gap between interest in NGOs and accessible literature for use in the classroom.

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NGOs and International Relations Theory
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Illustrations
9
NGO Evolution
19
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Shamima Ahmed is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science & CJ, Northern Kentucky University. Her teaching and research interests are in public administration, nonprofit management, and research methods. She has published in Management Development Journal, International Journal of Public Administration, Asian Thought & Society, Public Personnel Management, and State & Local Government Review. David Potter is a professor of political science in the Faculty of Policy Studies, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. He is the author of Japanrsquo;s Foreign Aid to Thailand and the Philippines (St. Martinrsquo;s Press, 1996) and co-author of Media, Bureaucracies, and Foreign Aid (Palgrave, 2004). He is the author of multiple articles and book chapters on Japanrsquo;s foreign aid, foreign policy, and non-governmental organizations.

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