Includes bibliographical references and index.; Interpreting global civil society / Rupert Taylor -- Global civil society : myths and prospects / Ronaldo Munck -- The Seattle WTO protests : building a global movement / Gillian Hughes Murphy -- Understanding the Genoa protest / Massimiliano Andretta and Lorenzo Mosca -- Grassroots movements as transnational actors : implications for global civil society / Srilatha Batliwala -- Global civil society and the new labor internationalism : a view from the south / Robert Lambert and Edward Webster -- New agendas and new patterns of international NGO political action / Paul Nelson -- Development NGOs : actors in a global civil society or in a new international social system? / Terje Tvedt -- Global civil society and the lessons of European environmentalism / Christopher Rootes -- The world social forum and new forms of social activism / Jacklyn Cock -- Taking global civil society seriously / Rupert Taylor and Kumi Naidoo.;