This book evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our analysis an understanding of global civil society, particularly if we also wish to raise ethical questions about the changing political and institutional practices of transnational governance. Bridging the normative concerns of political theorists with the historical and institutional focus of scholars of international relations and international political economy, this book is of broad interest to students and researchers concerned with international relations, civil society, global governance and ethics.

Preface - Craig Murphy1. The Idea(1) of global civil society Michael Kenny and Randall GermainContesting Global Civil Society2. Ideological contestation, trans-national civil society, and global politics Andrew Gamble and Michael Kenny3. Intimations of a Gramscian approach to global civil society Anne Showstack Sassoon4. Late modern civil society Nicholas OnufCitizenship and Global Civil Society5. Media, cultural citizenship, and the global public sphere Nick Stevenson6. Subjects, citizens or pilgrims? Citizenship and civil society in a global context Kimberley Hutchings7. Situating global citizenship Nigel Dower8. Global civil society, civilians and citizens Mervyn FrostGovernance and Global Civil Society9. Global civil society and global governmentality Louise Amoore and Paul Langley10. The management of global civil society: the WTO's engagement with NGOs Rorden Wilkinson11. Global modalities of financial governance: the public sphere and civil society Randall GermainConclusion12.Understanding global civil society: contestation, citizenship, governance Randall Germain and Michael Kenny