UN and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs): A Quick Guide

Featuring analysis of institutions such as UNCEF, UNDP and the Environment Programme, this book addresses the relationship between states, international organizations and non-state actors.

Humanitarian NGOs increasingly operate in the context of armed conflicts where the security risks are higher than in contexts of natural disaster. This book demonstrate how issues of (in-)security affect humanitarian NGOs and the humanitarian identity, and explains how non-state actors establish their own governance structures, independent from state-sponsored solutions.

This book explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiations. Through a study of the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS) the book conceptualizes structural power mechanisms that shape global ICT governance and analyses the impact of NGOs on communication rights, intellectual property rights, financing, and Internet governance.

This book presents a methodical appraisal of the role of NGOs in the contemporary world, addressing their main characteristics under each of the sources of international law, as well some pressing questions about the legitimacy deficit of States and Intergovernmental Organizations in the 21st century.

A peer-reviewed journal that advances understandings of social policy, social development, social and health governance, gender and poverty, social welfare, education, employment, and food, and the advantages and disadvantages of globalisation, from transnational and global perspectives.

This book re-conceptualizes civil society engagement with global governance institutions in the field of development in terms of opposition. With an innovative theoretical framework, it maps and explains opposition strategies through detailed case studies on the EU, the Asian Development Bank, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace' What processes do they adopt' Is there a spiritual UN today' This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity of religious groups at the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Based on a three and half-year study of activities in the United Nations system, it seeks to show how religion operates in both visible and invisible ways.