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Local and Global: International Governance and Civil Society: It is Inconceivable that any Northern donor or international NGO could begin to match the diversity of experience and Knowledge Already Extant Within the Third World

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Local and Global: International Governance and Civil Society: It is Inconceivable that any Northern donor or international NGO could begin to match the diversity of experience and Knowledge Already Extant Within the Third World
Author(s)Fisher, Julie
AbstractFisher notes that more formal international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have also proliferated in numbers now exceeding 25,000. Even though official international organizations, INGOs and international peacekeeping forces are increasingly cooperating with each other and with indigenous NGOs these global actors had to contend with more than 40 complex human emergencies in 1998 alone. The relationship between civil society and the state may in the long run help determine whether a particular country will contribute to or undermine collective efforts, however inchoate, to enhance stability, democracy and living conditions at the global level. By civil society, however, Fisher does not just mean a collection of NGOs. Indeed, as Perez Diaz defines it, civil society includes “markets, associations and a sphere of public debate.” Why markets? Because a significant percentage of non-profit NGOs in the developing world promote for-profit activities, such as micro-enterprises and community-based enterprises. In some countries more traditional business associations are emerging, and some scholars even include businesses in their definitions of civil society, arguing that they form part of the intermediary realm between the citizen and the state.
IssueNo1
Pages19-40
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceJournal of International Affairs
VolumeNo57
PubDateFall2003
ISBN_ISSN0022-197X


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