Table of Contents

Contents: The need for democratising international intergovernmental institutions - Global civil society and global governance - Civil society organisations at the United Nations and in the European Union system - NGOs positional attributes, representativeness and accountability, the practice of "dialogues" in the EU external relations.

About the Author

Marco Mascia is Professor of International Relations at the University of Padua, where he directs both the Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples and the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence.