Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n.º 105
How important are citizen protests in domestic and international politics? Can common citizens really influence in geopolitical issues and upset the existing balances in and among sovereign states? Has citizens’ role and power changed in the global world? What is the effect of the growing global interconnection on social movements and on the way they interrelate? These are some of the questions posed by this issue of the Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, through eight research works that examine cases from Central Africa, South America, Europe, Mesoamerica and Maghreb and the Middle East- Despite the plurality of issues tackled, all cases are related either to the fight for the recognition of civil and democratic rights of the general population, or with the defence and claim for the rights of a certain group, more specifically, women, workers and indigenous peoples. The analysis shows that, since a decade ago –due to the development of the new information and communication technologies and the facilities in international transport–, it is essential to take into account both the episodes of citizen mobilisation and the action of civil society organisations networks, in order to understand the evolution of the global political agenda, as well as the world geopolitical balances.
ISSN: 1133-6595 (printed edition)
ISSN: 2013-035X (online edition)
Introduction: mobilisation and protest in the global and nterconnected world
Salvador Martí i Puig and Eduardo Silva
Transnational advocacy networks for human rights in the Mediterranean
Laura Feliu i Martínez
The Mexican #YoSoy132: the (unexpected) emergence of an activist network
Guiomar Rovira Sancho
The role of feminism in the antiglobalization movement: contributions and challenges
Iratxe Perea Ozerin
Colour revolutions, nonviolence and social movements: Otpor in Serbia
Angélica Rodríguez Rodríguez y Aitor Díaz Anabitarte
(Un)globalising civil society: the cases of women’s rights in Burundi and Liberia
María Martín de Almagro Iniesta
New strategies by indigenous movements against extractivism in Chile
Ximena Cuadra Montoya
Juggling multiple agendas: the struggle of trade unions against neoliberalism in Argentina
Federico M. Rossi
Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA?
Mercedes Botto
Political opposition in the Middle East
Jordi Quero
Indigenous mobilisations: land, natural resources and participation (consultation/consent)
Alexandra Tomaselli
Beyond the institutions: The role of politicians in the domestic and international spheres
Mélany Barragán Manjón
Beyond 9/11: emergency powers in the international context
Claire Wright
