The growing impact of cross-border civil society networks and campaigns on global policy has made transnational civil society an increasingly important phenomenon. Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction provides a clear and accessible introduction to the history, characteristics, and achievements of influential transnational civil society networks, coalitions, and movements.

Editors Srilatha Batliwala and L. David Brown provide an in-depth analysis of the forces that have shaped transnational activism: globalism, economic and political power structures, and cross-border organization by non-state actors. Important transnational movements that have shaped our world - labor, environment, human rights, women's rights, peace, and economic justice - are also described and analyzed. The contributors are globally experienced activist-scholars and reflective practitioners discussing both developing and industrialized countries. For students, practitioners, and activists alike, Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction offers comprehensible descriptions of transnational initiatives working toward effective and sustainable solutions to some of the critical challenges facing our world.

Srilatha Batliwala is currently Civil Society Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where her work focuses on transnational civil society, particularly on transnational grassroots movements, and on bridging the divide between practictioners and scholars. She is also Chair of the Board of Women's Environment and Board of the International Society for Third Sector Research, and a Research Associate of Gender at Work, an international learning network on gender and institutional change.

L. David Brown is Director of International Programs at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was president of the Institute for Development Research, a not-for-profit center for research and consultation on institution-building for development, and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Boston University School of Management. His reseach and consulting has focused on strategies for handling change and conflict in organizations and institutions concerned with social change and development