LEADER 04165nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910828413703321 005 20240416114338.0 010 $a0-8014-6472-2 010 $a0-8014-6425-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464256 035 $a(CKB)2550000000100553 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000654707 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11405740 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000654707 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10674475 035 $a(PQKB)11005614 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001500142 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138323 035 $a(OCoLC)794306980 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28949 035 $a(DE-B1597)478304 035 $a(OCoLC)979968188 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464256 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138323 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10559172 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681845 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000100553 100 $a20111010d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBorders among activists $einternational NGOs in the United States, Britain, and France /$fSarah S. Stroup 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50563-2 311 $a0-8014-5073-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references ([p. 225] - 239) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tIntroduction: Where Have All the Borders Gone? -- $t1. Varieties of Activism in Three Countries -- $t2. Humanitarian INGOs -- $t3. Human Rights INGOs -- $t4. Reconciling Global and Local -- $tAppendix A: Case Selection -- $tAppendix B: Interviews Conducted -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Borders among Activists, Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world-international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)-organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy, and deliver services.Stroup offers detailed profiles of these "varieties of activism" in the United States, Britain, and France. These three countries are the most popular bases for INGOs, but each provides a very different environment for charitable organizations due to differences in legal regulations, political opportunities, resources, and patterns of social networks. Stroup's comparisons of leading American, British, and French INGOs-Care, Oxfam, Médicins sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and FIDH-reveal strong national patterns in INGO practices, including advocacy, fund-raising, and professionalization. These differences are quite pronounced among INGOs in the humanitarian relief sector, and are observable, though less marked, among human rights INGOs.Stroup finds that national origin helps account for variation in the "transnational advocacy networks" that have received so much attention in international relations. For practitioners, national origin offers an alternative explanation for the frequently lamented failures of INGOs in the field: INGOs are not inherently dysfunctional, but instead remain disconnected because of their strong roots in very different national environments. 606 $aNon-governmental organizations$zUnited States 606 $aNon-governmental organizations$zGreat Britain 606 $aNon-governmental organizations$zFrance 615 0$aNon-governmental organizations 615 0$aNon-governmental organizations 615 0$aNon-governmental organizations 676 $a341.2 686 $aMG 70290$2rvk 700 $aStroup$b Sarah S$g(Sarah Snip),$f1978-$01676427 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828413703321 996 $aBorders among activists$94042590 997 $aUNINA