Social Movements in a Globalizing World

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Social Movements in a Globalizing World: an Introduction....Pages 3-22
Alternative Types of Cross-national Diffusion in the Social Movement Arena....Pages 23-39
The Gendering of Abortion Discourse: Assessing Global Feminist Influence in the United States and Germany....Pages 40-56
Globalization or Still National Politics? A Comparison of Protests against the Gulf War in Germany, France, and the Netherlands....Pages 57-70
The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Order Management Systems....Pages 71-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
On the Relationship of Political Opportunities to the Form of Collective Action: the Case of the European Union....Pages 97-111
The Europeanization of Movements? A New Approach to Transnational Contention....Pages 112-133
Injustice and Adversarial Frames in a Supranational Political Context: Farmers’ Protest in the Netherlands and Spain....Pages 134-147
Supranational Political Opportunities as a Channel of Globalization of Political Conflicts. The Case of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples....Pages 148-169
Global Politics and Transnational Social Movement Strategies: the Transnational Campaign against International Trade in Toxic Wastes....Pages 170-188
International Campaigns in Context: Collective Action between the Local and the Global....Pages 189-205
The Transnationalization of Social Movements: Trends, Causes, Problems....Pages 206-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-256