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The Global Right Wing and the
Clash of World Politics
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, 2012
Human rights, environmentalism, and global justice: these transnational movements today face fierce opposition from networks of conservative activists promoting contrary aims. In their globalized battles, these foes struggle as much to advance their own causes as to destroy their rivals. Deploying exclusionary strategies, negative tactics, and dissuasive ideas, they aim both to make and unmake policy. The Global Right Wing chronicles combat over homosexuality and gun control in the UN, the Americas, Europe, and elsewhere. It investigates the “Baptist-burqa” network of conservative believers attacking gay rights, and the global gun coalition blasting efforts to control firearms. Drawing critical conclusions about norms, activists and institutions, The Global Right Wing will change how campaigners fight, scholars study policy wars, and all of us think about world politics.
NEW! Foreign Affairs review essay by Walter Russell Mead
Chapter 1; chapter excerpts; bibliography including active citations
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Related chapter: "Packing Heat: Pro-Gun Groups and the Govenance of Small Arms" in Avant, Finnemore, and Sell, eds., Who Governs the Globe? (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 2010), 183-201
Related essay: "Conservative Forces, Communications and Global Civil Society: Towards Conflictive Democracy" in Albrow, Anheier, Glasius, Price and Kaldor, eds., Global Civil Society 2007/08
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