Social Movements in a Globalizing World

Analyzing a broad range of movements, this volume, now available in paperback, reflects on the many challenges that globalization presents for transnational activisim. It explores how international government organizations might offer political opportunities and constraints for social movements, addressing both domestic and global problems

HANSPETER KRIESI holds the Chair in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a specialist of social movements, but his wide ranging research interests also include the study of direct democracy, political parties and interest groups, public opinion, the public sphere and the media. He is co-editor (with David Snow and Sarah Soule) of The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements and co-author of Transformation of West European Politics in an Age of Globalization. He is now the director of a Swiss national research programme on the 'Challenges to democracy in the 21st century'.

DONATELLA DELLA PORTA is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Italy. Among her recent publications are: Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences (with Michael Keating); Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits (with Gianni Piazza); The Global Justice Movement;Globalization from Below (with Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter); The Policing of Transnational Protest.

DIETER RUCHT is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the research group Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilization in Europe at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany. His research interests include political participation, social movements, political protest, and public discourse. Among his recent books in English are: Womens Movements Facing the Reconfigured State (co-edited) and Cyberprotest: New media, Citizens and Social Movements (co-edited). Rucht is involved in several research projects, among these Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society and "Transnational Struggles for Recognition".