Transnational activism in the UN and the EU: a comparative study/ edited by Jutta Joachim and Birgit Locher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transnational activism in the UN and the EU / Jutta Joachim and Birgit Locher -- Civil society organizations in the UN / Karen Mingst -- Where the states are : environmental NGOs and the UN climate change negotiations / Matthew Hoffman -- Human rights NGOs at the United Nations : developing an optional protocol to the Convention Against Torture / Ann Marie Clark -- Political opportunity structures and non-sate influence at the World Bank : making the case for transparency / Paul Nelson -- Negotiating human security at the UN : transnational civil society, arms control and disarmament / Simone Wisotzki -- Institutions and civil society organizations in the EU's multi-level system / Justin Greenwood -- NGOs, the European Union and the case of environment / Anthony R. Zito and Jamie Elizabeth Jacobs -- Safeguarding asylum as a human right : NGOs and the European Union / Emek Uçarer -- Pan-European NGOs and social rights : participatory democracy and civil dialogue / Pauline Cullen -- NGOs and security : the case of the European Union / Matthias Dembinski -- Worlds apart or worlds together? : transnational activism in the UN and the EU / Jutta Joachim and Birgit Locher.