First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Campaigns * Information, Location, and Legitimacy: The Changing Bases of Civil Society Involvement in International Economic Policy * Constructing a Southern Constituency for Global Advocacy: the Experience of Latin American NGOs and the World Bank * The IMF and Civil Society: An Interim Progress Report * Opportunities and Constraints for Civil Society Participation in Multilateral Lending Operations: Lessons from Latin America * Part 3: Global Campaigns * Danger ¿ Landmines! NGO-Government Collaboration in the Ottawa Process * Jubilee 2000: Citizen Action Across the North-South Divide * Cross Border Organizing Around Alternatives to Free Trade: Lessons from the NAFTA/FTAA Experience * National Coalitions and Global Campaigns: The International Children's Rights Movement * Handing Over the Stick: the Global Spread of Participatory Approaches to Development * Campaigning for Corporate Change: Global Citizen Action on the Environment * From the Corridors of Power to the Global Negotiating Table: The NGO Steering Committee of the Commission on Sustainable Development * Part 4: Lessons Learned ¿ International Networking for Women's Human Rights * Squatting on the Global Highway: Community Exchanges for Urban Transformation * Do the Facts Matter? NGOs, Research, and International Advocacy * What Makes International Campaigns Effective? Lessons from India and Ghana * Global Citizen Action: Lessons and Challenges * List of Acronyms * References *The Contributors Index * About the Book

Michael Edwards is director of Governance and Civil Society at the Ford Foundation. Among his most recent publications is Future Positive: International Cooperation in the 21st Century.
John Gaventa is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where he coordinates a global program on citizen participation. He is perhaps best known for his book Power and Powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley, winner of numerous awards.