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"Lost" Causes : Agenda Vetting in Global Issue Networks and the Shaping of Human Security /

Why do some issues and threats--diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations--get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? According to Charli Carpent...

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Autor principal: Carpenter, R. Charli (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cornell University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Agenda-vetting in global politics
  • Networks, centrality and issue creation in global politics
  • A network theory of advocacy gate-keeper decision-making
  • You harm, you help: pitching collateral damage control to humanitarian gatekeepers
  • From Stop the robot wars! to Ban killer robots!: pitching autonomous weapons to disarmament gatekeepers
  • His body, his choice: pitching infant male circumcision to human rights gatekeepers
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: studying transnational spaces: a multi-method approach
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.