INTRODUCTION: by Marlies Glasius, Mary Kaldor, and Helmut Anheier

PART 1: CONCEPTS

CHAPTER 1 Gender and Civil Society by Jude Howell

CHAPTER 2 The World Social Forum: Where Do We Stand and Where Are We Going? by Francisco Whitaker; Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Bernard Cassen

PART 2: ISSUES

CHAPTER 3 Climate for Change? Civil Society and the Politics of Global Warming by Peter Newell

CHAPTER 4 The Movement of Labour and Global Civil Society by Meghnad Desai

CHAPTER 5 Reforming the United Nations: Global Civil Society Perspectives and Initiatives by Richard Falk

PART 3: INFRASTRUCTURE

CHAPTER 6 Social Forums: Radical Beacon or Strategic Infrastructure? by Marlies Glasius and Jill Timms

CHAPTER 7 Global Connectedness: the Structure of Transnational NGO Networks by Hagai Katz and Helmut Anheier

CHAPTER 8 Electronic Communication and Socio-Political Mobilization: A New Form of Civil Society by Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey

PART 4: RECORDS

Learning from History? Comparative-Historical Methods and Researching Global Civil Society by Helmut Anheier and Hagai Katz

Data Programme

Chronology of Global Civil Society Events