Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power, and Threefolding

Civil Society has become a major power in the world. The stunning defeat of the controversial and secretive Multilateral Agreement on Investments, the massive world-wide WTO protests and the yearly meetings of the World Social Forum, are testimony to its coming of age. From these significant victories, civil society continued to catch world attention with the Arab Spring, the grassroots movement that helped elect former US President Barack Obama and the significant gains of the anti-frackin...