Marlies Glasius is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Amsterdam. She was formerly a research fellow at the Centre for Global Governance, London School of Economics, and a co-editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook. She is the author of The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement (Routledge, 2007).

Recent articles

The International Criminal Court was set up in 1998 and began operation in 2003. How has it discharged its responsibilties in relation to states, civil-society groups and the victims of human-rights abuse? Marlies Glasius presents an interim report-card.

(This article was first published on 21 July 2008)

From Porto Alegre to anti-war movements, 2003 was a tumultuous year of political mobilisation. As the 2004 World Social Forum opens in Mumbai, will “global civil society” build an enduring space in support of a more humane form of globalisation?

The emergence of a global civil society is one of the vital factors in global politics in the last decade. The co-editor of a comprehensive sourcebook on the subject maps its contours. A new ‘global dialogue’ is needed, but must it include even those committed to ethnic or religious fundamentalism?