Transnational activism by environmental, human rights, and other "progressive" groups has changed international policy and shaped global culture. Yet these movements do not act unopposed. Recently, powerful right-wing forces have also gone global, though few scholars note this. My interdisciplinary project examines nationalist, religious, and free-market conservatives in transnational debates over gun control and gay rights.  Analyzing interlocking conflicts in national and international arenas, I highlight the contending strategies of conservative and progressive forces as they promote their goals and undermine their foes. The result will be a more complete and realistic understanding of transnational politics and an emergent “global civil society.”

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American Council of Learned Societies award

Published chapter in Albrow, Anheier, Glasius, Price & Kaldor, eds., Global Civil Society 2007/08

"Packing Heat: Pro-Gun Groups and the Govenance of Small Arms" in Deborah Avant, Martha Finnemore, & Susan Sell, eds., Who Governs the Globe?  (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 2010), 183-201.