China has experienced incredible growth in the number of nongovernmental organizations (NGO) that occupy civil society. These organizations came forth at a time of rapid economic and political change. Instead of being given a supportive legal path for their work, NGOs have had to navigate the...

Zahlreiche sozialwissenschaftliche Studien beschreiben den Zustand zeitgenössischer liberaler Demokratien als beängstigend und werfen somit die Frage auf, ob deren Bestand gefährdet sei. Diese Diagnosen aufnehmend fragt die vorliegende Untersuchung nach den Bestandsbedingungen der liberalen...

Since the late 1980s, the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has become the venue for mobilisation and protests by littoral states on the one hand and oil bearing communities and civil society groups on the other hand. They are protesting not only against ownership and control of oil and gas and the...