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Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics Paperback – April 15, 1998

by Margaret E. Keck (Author), Kathryn A. Sikkink (Author)
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Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International Affairs

Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.

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Activists beyond Borders is one of the finest books on global social activism to come our in recent years. It breaks new ground by offering a theory of grassroots international activism.... The book is chalked full of lessons for labor and other social activists.... The book is inspiring.

― Dollars and Sense

An important new contribution.... The challenge the authors set for themselves is a valuable one, and this book helps navigate these largely uncharted practical and theoretical waters.

― Canadian Journal of Political Science

For Keck and Sikkink, the webs of connections human rights groups have formed constitute the heart of their story. In showing why these networks succeed, they have advanced theoretical analysis.... An essential addition to the libraries of all interested in human rights.

― Human Rights Quarterly

Keck and Sikkink are masters at blurring disciplinary boundaries, melding theory on international relations with a broad range of theories on the formation of domestic social movements. They also do an impressive job of tracing the origins of these networks historically, including case studies of the mid-nineteenth-century antislavery movement and the movement for female suffrage.

― Latin American Research Review

Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink's Activists beyond Borders has been extremely influential in studies of transnational collective action. Building on firsthand experiences, fieldwork, and a vast secondary literature on social movement activity, they highlight the rising prevalence and influence of transnational actors in domestic political exchange and international relations. To demonstrate this phenomenon they introduce a database, constructed by Jackie Smith, on international nongovernmental social change organizations. They also present three qualitative case studies of networks working for human rights, the environment, and women's freedom from violence. The case studies are particularly noteworthy insofar as 'approximately half of all international nongovernmental social change organizations work on these three issues.' Their conceptual innovations, grounded theory, and illustrative case studies have broken new ground and have become a touchstone for studies on transnational collective action.

― Comparative Politics

Offers valuable descriptive accounts of the role played by nonstate actors in the global issues arena, mostly in areas relating to human rights and the environment.

― The American Journal of International Law

Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change.

― International Affairs

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Activists beyond Borders is a searching exploration of advocacy networks, providing compelling accounts in areas such as human rights and environmental protection and an intriguing glimpse into the transnational politics of the twenty-first century.

-- Robert O. Keohane, Duke University

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press; First Edition (April 15, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801484561
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801484568
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
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    I’m an international relations specialist best known for my work on human rights, international norms, transnational advocacy networks and social movements, and transitional justice. I teach at the Harvard Kennedy School, where I’m the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy. I’m trying to write both for scholars and for members of the public interested in human rights and justice, especially my new book, The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibility, and the books The Justice Cascade, Evidence for Hope, and Activists beyond Borders. My books have been awarded prizes, including the Grawemeyer Award (for Ideas for Improving World Order), the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award, and the WOLA/Duke University Award. In my most recent book The Hidden Face of Rights (Yale University Press, 2020) I argue that we cannot truly implement human rights unless we also recognize human responsibilities, giving examples from diverse issues like climate change, voting, digital privacy, and campus sexual assault. I’ve been a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and a Guggenheim fellow.

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  • "abant"
    5.0 out of 5 stars A voice beyond the mainstream IR theories
    Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2002
    Who are the most relevant actors in international relations? The answer is states for both neorealists and neoliberals though the latter also consider some non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations (MNC) as remarkable units in international politics. Constructivists, on the other hand, pay considerable attention to non-state actors while they also keep states as central actors. Margaret E. Keck and, Kathryn Sikkink present us a well-designed discussion about the significance of non-state actors of world politics in Activist Beyond Borders. First of all, they classify transnational actors into three groups; MNC and international banks that have instrumental goals, epistemic communities that insist on causal ideas and transnational advocacy networks (TAN) that carry principal ideas.Then, they analyze the significance of TAN in international politics by searching for how do TAN work and how do they change conceptions of national interest and principles of policies organizations? Keck and Sikkink mention four fundamental strategies of TAN; information politics, symbolic politics, leverage politics, and accountability politics. They generate information, use symbolic elements, put pressure on states and international organizations, and follow their accountability to international norms. Their effectiveness, however, depend on the issue and actor characteristics that they are targeting. What they do? They cause to reformulation of national interests and they eventually change behavior of states. The principled ideas are the key for TAN and they also lead ideas to transformation of states interests and policies. Activist Beyond Borders has three case studies in the area of TAN; human rights, environment, and violence against women. In these cases, transnational human rights advocacy networks changed authoritarian Latin American governments' notions and policies of human rights. TAN in environment shifted the World Bank's funding policies in corresponding to the protection of environment. TAN in women's rights lead to change state policies in two areas. One of the most significant arguments for IR theory that Keck and Sikkink state is that TAN lead to changes in state understandings of sovereignty. Then states begin to accommodate to re-conceptualized sovereignty at the expense of realist notion of absolute sovereignty. In this sense, they question the realist premises of state interests. They also emphasizes that TAN are important source of new ideas, norms and identities that make repercussions over behavior of states and international organizations. They carry transformative and mobilizing ideas into international system and finally shape fundamentally policies of both state and non-sate actors in world politics. In addition, the authors stress upon the importance of domestic actors for TAN to be successful. Overall, Activists Beyond Borders asserts that TAN endeavor to transform the terms and nature of the debate on fundamentals of international politics.
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  • tonje wold switzer
    5.0 out of 5 stars global vs local context brilliantly.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014
    Exemplifies activist networks in a historical vs current, global vs local context brilliantly.
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  • AJ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Destined to become a classic
    Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2001
    Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikink's "Activists Beyond Borders" is almost certainly the most significant book yet to have appeared on the role of activist networks in shaping global politics. It's a joy to read, theoretically rich but never overly dense, and it's also inspiring -- probably why it received the prestigious Grawemeyer World Order Award. The introduction, on "Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics," would make an excellent reading for a graduate course on International Relations theory. But the same could be said for almost every chapter in the book. The case-studies build upon the prior research of both authors to present fascinating overviews of the evolution of activist networks in the fields of human rights, the environment, and violence against women. In each instance, the authors are careful to include examples of networks that did *not* crystallize in certain issue-areas, and to explain why some endeavours succeeded while others failed (or were less successful). While the book will be of considerable interest to I.R. scholars, it should also be read by activists, who will learn a great deal about how to maximize their reach and influence.
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    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2016
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  • dilet
    4.0 out of 5 stars 非国家的政治アクターに関する実証分析
    Reviewed in Japan on January 28, 2004
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    いわゆるNGOを中心とした政治集団に関する分析です。
    国際関係論におけるconstructivismと比較政治学におけるsocial movementの理論に影響を受けた理論的枠組みを基に、著者らの言うtransnational advocacy networkが、国際的な規範の問題にどのように関わっているかを、情報等の観点から分類されたネットワークの行う四つの政治形態を目安にしながら述べています。
    最初の章で上のような理論的な枠組みを提示し、次の章で過去の史実に照らした具体例を分析、続く三章で現代的な人権、環境、女性の問題を扱い、結論へと至るという構成をとっていますが、実証分析には各章複数の具体例を用いているので、この比較的薄い一冊でも事例は非常に豊富です。また、その中で、規範に関する当事者らの認識の変化に重点を置き、ネットワークを媒介点とする形で国内政治と国際政治とが繋がっている様子を描くことで、国際関係の動態に関する理論的な視点も提供しようとしています。そのほか、epistemic communityとの違いに触れている箇所などもあります。
    テーマ的に関心がある人にも、国際関係の理論に関心がある人にも読む価値のある好著ではないかと感じました。
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  • Max
    5.0 out of 5 stars awesome book on the impact of activism free press
    Reviewed in Canada on March 1, 2017
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    Fast delivery! awesome book on the impact of activism free press, freedom of speech and geopolitics.
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  • Fernando Tabarez
    1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
    Reviewed in Canada on December 28, 2016
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    Postmodernist garbage.
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