A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics

Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Humanitarian Action Initiative in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University; a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Global Governance”; and was previously an Associate Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Deloffre currently serves on the board of the International Humanitarian Studies Association and on the editorial board of Global Studies Quarterly.Sigrid Quack is Senior Professor of Sociology at the Universität Duisburg-Essen and a PI at the DFG Research Training Group “Cross-border Labour Markets”. She co-edited Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation, with K. Freistein, B. Mahlert, and C. Unrau (Edward Elgar 2022), is co-editor of the Routledge Global Cooperation Research Series, and is an Associate Editor of Organization Theory. She was previously the Managing Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

• Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1: Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre;Sigrid Quack: A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics Part I. Social Ties 2: Domenico Carolei: NGODSNGO Conflict: The Legal Case of Survival International v. WWF 3: Sotiris Petropoulos: The Power of Interpersonal Ties: INGO Relations in the Greek Refugee Crisis 4: Hans Peter Schmitz;George E. Mitchell;Bin Chen: NGO Mergers and Acquisitions: A Social Relational Perspective Part II. Configurations 5: Nina Reiners: NGODSNGO Interactions through Individuals: Patterns and Effects for Social Rights Advocacy 6: Huimin Cheng;Ye Wang;Ping Ma;Amanda Murdie: Pathways to Brokerage: A Relational Approach to Understanding Global South Inter-Community NGO Networking 7: William E. DeMars;Dennis Dijkzeul: NGO Self-Organization and Orchestration in Ethiopia: Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict Part III. Sites of Interaction 8: Andrea Schapper: Super-Networks as Sites of TANDSTAN Interaction in International Climate Politics 9: Katherine R. Cheng;Emily Finchum-Mason;Mary Kay Gugerty: Coordinating Civil Society?: How NGO Associations Navigate Transnational Collaboration 10: Susan Appe;Ana Paula Borges Pinho: NGODSNGO Interactions, Brazil> 's Counterterrorism Legislation, and Beyond Part IV. Conclusion 11: Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre;Sigrid Quack: Conclusion: Main Findings and Future Research Directions 12: Index

A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics is a conceptually sophisticated and empirically rich contribution to the field of global governance. It offers scholars both atheoretical toolkit and an invitation to reconsider agency, power, and legitimacy as emergent properties of relational systems.