Social Movements in a Globalizing World

The growing interdependence on a global scale which characterizes the human condition at the turn of the century constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. This volume makes an attempt to adjust the perspective of the "political process" approach to a world in which political opportunities, mobilizing structures, framing processes and collective action of social movements are no longer confined to national political contexts.

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence.

Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva.

Dieter Rucht is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent.