MARTIN ALBROW Senior Visiting Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UKHELMUT K. ANHEIER Dean of Hertie School of Governance, GermanyDANIELE ARCHIBUGI works at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, Italy, and the University of London, UKVESNA BOJICIC-DZELILOVIC Senior Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UKCHRISTINE CHINKIN Professor in International Law at LSE, UK, and William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, USAMEGHNAD DESAI Emeritus Professor of Economics at LSE, UKMIENT JAN FABER Professor of Citizens' Involvement in War Situations at the Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Visiting Professor at the University of Houston, USARICHARD FALK Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, USA, and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, USAANTHONY GIDDENS Fellow of King's College Cambridge, UK, and Emeritus Professor at LSE, UKDAVID HELD Graham Wallas Chair in Political Science and co-Director of LSE Global Governance, UKMARY MARTIN Research Fellow and Director of Communications for Human Security at LSE Global Governance, UKIAVOR RANGELOV Global Security Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UKHEBA RAOUF EZZAT teaches Political Theory at Cairo University, and at the American University in Cairo, EgyptEMMA ROTHSCHILD Director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics , USA/UK, and Professorof History at Harvard University, USA, and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UKYAHIA SAID Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, UKSASKIA SASSEN Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, USAGENEVIEVE SCHMEDER Professor of Economics at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris and the University Paris X Nanterre, FranceHAKAN SECKINELGIN Senior Lecturer in International Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy, LSE, and Research Associate at LSE Global Governance, UKSABINE SELCHOW Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, USAMARIKA THEROS Research Officer at LSE Global Governance, UK

• Introduction; D.Kostovicova & M.Glasius PART I: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: AN EMERGING REALITY Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents; D.Archibugi & D.Held The Umma: From Global Civil Society to Global Public Sphere; H.R.Ezzat Civility and Global Civil Society: The Missing Link; H.K.Anheier Cosmopolitan Intimacies and Sexual Politics in Global Civil Society; H.Seckinelgin Dissident Writings: Prefiguring Global Civil Society?; M.Glasius PART II: HUMAN SECURITY: FROM STATES TO PEOPLE External State-building and Transnational Networks: The Limits of the Civil Society Approach; D.Kostovicova & V.Bojicic-Dzelilovic A Bottom-up Approach to Redressing Past Violations of Human Rights; C.Chinkin & I.Rangelov The Degeneration of Cosmopolitan Wars; M.J.Faber From Counter-force to Human Security? Experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan; M.Theros & Y.Said Peace and the People: How the European Union Rewrites Security; G.Schmeder & M.Martin PART III: BOTTOM-UP GLOBALIZATION Appropriating Normative Geopolitics: Civil Society, International Law, and the Future of the United Nations; R.Falk Chipko and Grameen Bank: Women's Responses of Resistance and Accommodation with Capital; M.Desai Globalization and the Study of Global Politics from Below: Preparing the Ground for an Alternative Approach; S.Selchow Against All Odds: The Urbanizing of Human Security?; S.Sassen Old New Wars: Global History from Below; E.Rothschild Conclusion: Can Global Civil Society Answer the Hobbesian Problem?; M.Albrow