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Marlies Glasius

Marlies Glasius is research officer in the Centre for Civil Society at the London School of Economics. She contributed to the third Global Civil Society Yearbook (Oxford, 2003).

Recent articles


Global civil society: the politics of a new world?

From Porto Alegre to anti-war movements, 2003 was a tumultuous year of political mobilisation. As the 2004 World Social Forum opens in Mumbai, will “global civil society” build an enduring space in support of a more humane form of globalisation?

Global civil society comes of age

The emergence of a global civil society is one of the vital factors in global politics in the last decade. The co-editor of a comprehensive sourcebook on the subject maps its contours. A new ‘global dialogue’ is needed, but must it include even those committed to ethnic or religious fundamentalism?