This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals. Multi-stakeholder initiatives, private-public partnership, sub-contracting, political alliances, hybrid coalitions, multi-sectoral networks, pluralist co-governance, and indeed foreign policy by proxy are all considered. Bringing together the most advanced scholarship, the book examines trade, environment, development, security, and human rights with reference to both EU and global institutional settings such as the WTO, UN Climate Summits, FAO, IFAD, ICC, UNHRC, UNSC, and at the EU level the DG FISMA, TRADE, CLIMA, DEVCO, HOME and ECHO. The book also studies the use of NGOs in the foreign policy of the EU, USA, and Russia. This changing politics and the polarized debate it has generated are explored in detail.
Raffaele Marchetti is Senior Assistant Professor in International Relations at LUISS, Rome, Italy, and is anexpert on global governance, international public policies, NGOs, and peacebuilding. Among his publications are The Rules of the Global Political Game; Cooperation and Competition between Governments and NGOs; Global Democracy; Civil Society, Ethnic Conflicts, and the Politicization of Human Rights; Conflict Society and Peacebuilding.
This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals. Multi-stakeholder initiatives, private-public partnership, sub-contracting, political alliances, hybrid coalitions, multi-sectoral networks, pluralist co-governance, and indeed foreign policy by proxy are all considered. Bringing together the most advanced scholarship, the book examines trade, environment, development, security, and human rights with reference to both EU and global institutional settings such as the WTO, UN Climate Summits, FAO, IFAD, ICC, UNHRC, UNSC, and at the EU level the DG FISMA, TRADE, CLIMA, DEVCO, HOME and ECHO. The book also studies the use of NGOs in the foreign policy of the EU, USA, and Russia. This changing politics and the polarized debate it has generated are explored in detail.
Examines the cooperative side of the relationship between societal actors and public institutions, which is often overlooked in traditional civil society scholarship Analyses different policy areas in parallel both at the global and European level, including trade, environment, development, security, and human rights Brings together some of the most advanced and significant recent scholarship on the theme of civil society in global governance
Raffaele Marchetti
Public policy Global governance European Union Multi stakeholder Democracy promotion Diplomacy european union politics democracy
“Marchetti considers more descriptively how modern foreign policy, particularly in areas such as the promotion of democracy and human rights, is increasingly being wielded by proxy through engagement with civil society. Such interactions, he concludes, provide opportunities and risks and it is as well to be aware of both. … a fascinating collection of analyses.” (Martin Westlake, European Political Science, June, 2017)