Hertie School of 
Global Civil Society 2012 
Ten Years of Critical Reflection

Activists and academics look back over ten years of ‘politics from below’, and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has changed – or whether there is something genuinely new about the way in which civil society is now operating.

Table of Content

PART I: INTRODUCTION The Global Civil Society Yearbook: Lessons and Insights 2001-2011; H.Anheier, M.Kaldor & M.Glasius Global Civil Society and the Internet: Time to Update Our Perspective; H.Moore & S.Selchow PART II: DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP The Arab Awakening: The Crisis of Dictatorship and Civil Society; B.Dreano ‘Lost in Transformation’: The Crisis of Democracy and Civil Society; F.Miszlivetz Passionate Publics in Mediated Civil Society; B.Blaagaard PART III: PEACE AND JUSTICE A Decade of the War on Terror and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’; M.Kaldor Pro-Roma Global Civil Society: Acting For, With or Instead of Roma?; A.Kóczé & M.Rövid Cluster Munitions and Civil Society: The Building Blocks of a Global Campaign; T.Nash PART IV: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY The Rise of the Civil Economy; R.Murray The World Social Forum Ten Years On: Internationalisation without Institutionalisation; G.Pleyers PART V: RECORDS Bordering on the Unknown: Approaches to Global Civil Society Data; S.Deel, S.Stares & J.Timms Records; H.Anheier Chronology of Global Civil Society Events: A Yearbook Retrospective; J.Timms

About the author

HELMUT ANHEIER Dean and Professor of Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany BOLETTE B. BLAAGAARD Research Fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism, City University London, UK SEAN DEEL Researcher in the Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK BERNARD DREANO Member of the Centre d’études et d’initiatives de solidarité internationale (CEDETIM), France, and of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (HCA), Finland MARLIES GLASIUS Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ANGÉLA KÓCZÉ Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnic and Minority Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences FERENC MISZLIVETZ Director of the Institute for Social and European Studies, University of West Hungary, Scientific Advisor of the Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Academic Director of the Institute for Global and European Integration Studies, Corvinus University, Hungary ROBIN MURRAY Senior Visiting Fellow in the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK THOMAS NASH Founding partner of Article 36 GEOFFREY PLEYERS FNRS researcher at the University of Louvain, Belgium MÁRTON RÖVID Ph.D candidate at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Hungary SALLY STARES Research Fellow in the Methodology Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JILL TIMMS Ph.D candidate in the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.