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The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) 1st Edition

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This book is an eye-opening account of transnational advocacy, not by environmental and rights groups, but by conservative activists. Mobilizing around diverse issues, these networks challenge progressive foes across borders and within institutions. In these globalized battles, opponents struggle as much to advance their own causes as to destroy their rivals. Deploying exclusionary strategies, negative tactics and dissuasive ideas, they aim both to make and unmake policy. In this work, Clifford Bob chronicles combat over homosexuality and gun control in the UN, the Americas, Europe and elsewhere. He investigates the 'Baptist-burqa' network of conservative believers attacking gay rights, and the global gun coalition blasting efforts to control firearms. Bob draws critical conclusions about norms, activists and institutions, and his broad findings extend beyond the culture wars. They will change how campaigners fight, scholars study policy wars, and all of us think about global politics.
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    0521145449
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521145442
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    February 27, 2012
  6. Part of series
    Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
  7. Language
    English
  8. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.55 x 8.5 inches
  9. Print length
    242 pages
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“Clifford Bob is the first person to show how contentious movement politics on both the left and right has moved to a global stage. Tracing transnational networks within a range of movements, both religious and secular, he shows how countermovement struggles have expanded far beyond national boundaries. The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics is indispensable reading for understanding globalization and contemporary politics.”―David S. Meyer, University of California, Irvine

“Clifford Bob debunks a deep-seated myth that ‘global civil society’ consists of progressive NGOs that successfully pressure governments to bring themselves in line with liberal norms incorporated in human rights treaties. As is so often the case, the received wisdom turns out to be wishful thinking, and the truth is complex. Bob’s carefully documented case studies reveal that international politics, like domestic politics, is an arena of ideological conflict where right-wing groups have shown that they can hold their own. This is a thoroughly satisfying and persuasive exercise in myth-debunking; it will reorient the literature and influence scholars for some time to come.”―Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School

“Clifford Bob is one of the scholarly community’s most counterintuitive thinkers on transnational networks, politics, and advocacy. His first book, The Marketing of Rebellion, highlighted understudied problems of scarcity, conflict and competition among local and international activists. With this new book, Bob once again forces us to think in new ways about important topics. The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics highlights neglected dynamics of claim and counter-claim, showing that liberals and left-wingers often share the global stage with equally committed conservatives. The unflagging left-right struggle that Bob uncovers shapes each side's goals, tactics, and achievements. As a result, this book offers exciting new insights on the world of transnational policymaking.”―James Ron, Harold E. Stassen Chair of International Affairs, Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

“The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics is a very important book. By detailing the influence of right-wing activist networks in the battle for policy influence, it takes the gloss off the idealistic view of activism as always for the ‘right’ (meaning left wing) ideas that are seen to prevail through persuasion and deliberation. As such, it ‘rights’ the balance in the literature on global politics, by showing how right-wing ideas travel across the globe, carried by social activists who win through conflict and contestation, in pitched battles in both global institutions and national arenas. Best of all, the cases it discusses make for fascinating reading.”―Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University

"Bob has made another excellent contribution to the understanding of transnational relations. Summing Up: Recommended." -P.J. Stoett, Concordia University, CHOICE Magazine

“In his new book, The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics , Bob, a political scientist, strips away the myths that have allowed liberals and progressives to believe that the growth of civil society will inevitably aid their cause.” -Walter Russell Mead,Bard College, Foreign Affairs

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This book analyzes transnational advocacy by conservatives, examining combat over issues such as gay rights and gun control.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (February 27, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 242 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521145449
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521145442
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.55 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Clifford Bob is an author and professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He studies and teaches about human rights, activism, foreign policy, and globalization. In an earlier incarnation, he worked as a lawyer at a New York City law firm. Today, he enjoys traveling, international cooking, and biking - preferably with his lovely wife, Joan, and grown children, Alex and Natalie.

His latest book, The Global Right Wing, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. An earlier book, The Marketing of Rebellion, won several awards and was featured on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.

He has published widely in political science, sociology, law, and policy, including a controversial 2002 cover article in Foreign Policy magazine. His opinion articles have appeared in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Daily Mail (Islamabad), Sidney Morning Herald (Australia), Times-Picayune (New Orleans), and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He blogs at Duck of Minerva.

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  • Laura K. Landolt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable for students and scholars alike!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2012
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    Clifford Bob's exciting new book takes countermovement and advocacy coalition frameworks 'to a whole new level'--the transnational level, to be exact. On the one hand, this book is valuable for its accessible, vivid and engaging descriptive content. It illuminates the multiple levels and different institutional sites of contention utilized by competing networks in ways that undergraduates would very much enjoy. On the other hand, the book is also valuable for its scholarly contribution. In particular, Bob's model offers important correctives to social constructivists' analysis of global civil society, transnational activism and norm diffusion, and helps to explain how and why meaningful policy change is so difficult (and 'nonpolicy' so common) at the international level. - Laura K. Landolt, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Oakland University
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A good overview of the role NGOs play in domestic and international politics
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2012
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    Clifford Bob has provided two well researched case studies that present a clear model of the role NGOs play in both international and domestic policy. Using examples from the gay rights and gun control debates Bob shows how international NGOs on both sides of the political spectrum battle over policy at an international level while assisting local groups at a national level. Definitely worth the $13.20 for the kindle edition.
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  • Cathy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wunderbares Buch über die Wirkungsweise von NROs
    Reviewed in Germany on November 28, 2013
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    Clifford Bob beschreibt die Wirkungsweise von internationalen NROs intensiv und detailliert. 2/3 des Buches befassen sich mit der Baptist-Burka-Connection, d.h. katholische und islamische NROs gegen Homosexuelle. Das letzte Drittel beschäftigt sich mit der Waffenrechts-Debatte pro bzw. anti Waffen. Am Beispiel Brasilien wird aufgezeigt, welche NROs wie wirkten.

    Es scheint mittlerweile viele NROs zu geben, die sich als internationale und finanziell, durch Spenden und Regierungsgelder, gut ausgestattete Übermacht an nationale NROs "heranmachen". Dabei sind die nationalen Player oft auf sich allein gestellt und kämpfen wie David gegen Goliath. Manchmal gewinnt - wie in Brasilien - David, doch die internationalen Golliaths lernen und ziehen mit ihrem Kampf einfach ins nächste Land, wo sie mit den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen aus der Niederlage sich besser aufstellen. Der nächste David hat es dann noch schwerer.

    Wenn man dieses Buch gelesen hat, fällt es einem schwer, noch an Gerechtigkeit zu glauben. Anscheinend trifft der Vorwurf "Geld regiert die Welt" immer zu. Waren in den 80er Jahren die Wirtschaftsbosse die obersten Herrscher, sind es heute die NROs und Medien.
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