nongovernmental organization: References & Edit History

General discussions of nongovernmental organizations include Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998); Ann M. Florini (ed.), The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (2000); and Robert O’Brien et al., Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements (2000). The role of NGOs in the United Nations system is explored in Thomas G. Weiss and Leon Gordenker (eds.), NGOs, the UN, and Global Governance (1996); and Peter Willetts (ed.), The ‘Conscience of the World’: The Influence of Non-Governmental Organisations in the UN System (1996). A historical study of NGOs is Steve Charnovitz, “Two Centuries of Participation: NGOs and International Governance,” in Michigan Journal of International Law, 18(2):183–286 (Winter 1997). The influence of NGOs in environmental politics is discussed in Paul Wapner, Environmental Activism and World Civil Politics (1996). An extended study of NGOs in the field of human rights is William Korey, NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1998, reissued 2001).