Perspectivas sobre a "sociedade civil global" no estudo das relações internacionais

Abstract

This research seeks to analyze the various perspective adopted in the International Relations field on the "idea of a global civil society". First, it will examine the moment and the political context in which the concept appeared with regularity in the specific literature, aiming at identifying the historical conditions that allowed the development and dissemination of different discourses on global civil society. Second, the very interpretations and uses of the term will the explored in detail, identifying the main converging and diverging elements among the different approaches and the ways in which they conceive the concept of global civil society and its relation with process such as globalization and world order transformations. Last, this debate will be confronted with selected International Relations theories and, thus, it will discuss the extent to which the debate on the idea of global civil society reflects the very heterogeneity of the International Relations field