Constructing world culture

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This book illuminates the central role played by international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875 - including environmental organizations, human rights groups, bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic development organizations, among others - both reflects and contributes to the spread of global institutions and cultural principles based on models of rationality, individualism, progress, and universalism. The contributors contrast this world-polity perspective to other approaches to understanding globalization, including realist and neo-realist analyses in the field of international relations, and world-system theory and interstate competition theory in sociology.

subjects: Internationalism,  International relations,  Non-governmental organizations,  History,  Organisations non gouvernementales,  Histoire,  Internationalisme,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Globalization,  International agencies,  Non-governmental organizations--history,  Non-governmental organizations--history--20th century,  International relations--history,  International relations--history--20th century,  Internationalism--history,  Internationalism--history--20th century,  Jz4841 .c66 1999,  327.1/7/09

Times: 20th century