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The Myth about Global Civil Society

Part of the Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230355552

ISBN: 978-1-349-32688-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 17, 2015

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Introduction

Tepe, Daniela

Pages: 1 –10

[The failure of the UN Weapons Convention to bring about a comprehensive ban on landmines paved the way for an initiative of like-minded states attempting to find ways – in the so-called Ottawa Process – to establish an effective ban on the use of landmines. The process, based on a Canadian...
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IR and NGOs — A Simplistic Story?

Tepe, Daniela

Pages: 11 –49

[This chapter deconstructs IR’s understanding of non-state actors as too optimistic and theoretically under-complex. A normative bias towards actors of ‘global civil society’, ‘transnational civil society’ or ‘international civil society’ is a common feature of IR theoretical engagements with...
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NGOs and Materialist State Theory

Tepe, Daniela

Pages: 50 –76

[Approaches in IR dealing with global civil society have a limited understanding of the capitalist state. Consequently, these approaches construct NGOs as part of a global civil society that is empirically and normatively vague. Relations of dominance largely disappear from view, in parts...
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The Landmines Campaign and the Ottawa Convention — The Involvement of NGOs in Banning Landmines

Tepe, Daniela

Pages: 77 –105

[In addition to providing the necessary background, this chapter moves on to sketch debates surrounding the development of the Ottawa Convention. The focus lies on the creation of German and UK governmental positions up to the point of both governments signing the Convention. The overall purpose...
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Discourses and Interests

Tepe, Daniela

Pages: 106 –134

[I will now turn to highlight the historically specific settings that the landmines campaign confronted in Germany and the UK respectively. The consecutive chapter – Chapter 5 – locates these findings within the theoretical argument of this book, offering an indication of the historically...
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The State and Civil Society

Tepe, Daniela

Pages: 135 –153

[By addressing the propositions that were set out in the introduction, this chapter brings together what has been developed up to this point. It becomes clear that materialist state theory as employed in this book and especially the Gramscian understanding of the integral state form meaningful...
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Conclusions

Tepe, Daniela

Pages: 154 –162

[The domestic implementation of the international campaign to ban landmines: The findings]

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