Shaping Globalization: 
Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding

Table of Contents

list of tables and figures   xi

list of acronyms   xiii

foreword by Paul H. Ray, Ph.D.   xv

message by Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker   xvii

preface   xix

chapter one    threefolding: the language of the new tri-polar world   1

chapter two    whose world? surveying the terrain of contention   27

chapter three    the battle of seattle   36

chapter four    the threats and opportunities of globalization    46

chapter five    elite globalization and the world power structure behind it    60

chapter six    civil society as a global countervailing force    70

chapter seven    identity crisis    84

chapter eight    co-optation: the ironic fruit of the battle of seattle?    90

chapter nine    the cultural nature of civil society    108

chapter ten    testing the framework    131

chapter eleven    cultural power    141

chapter twelve    cultural creatives and the cultural revolution of the 21st century    150

chapter thirteen    civil society and the threefolding of national and global social space    159

chapter fourteen    example of philippine agenda 21    177

chapter fifteen    tri-sector partnerships at the united nations: boon or bane?    195

chapter sixteen    the juggernaut of tri-sector partnerships    215

chapter seventeen    civil society and the beginning of history    233 

notes    241

bibliography    255

about the author    260

about cadi    261

about globenet3    264

index    267

about the cover    273

 

 

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