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This valuable contribution offers a most thorough, sharp and systematic assessment of civil society action beyond the nation-state, and does so with a unique deep comparative study of regional institutions in Asia. -- Jan Aart Scholte, Professor of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg In this careful and considered book Uhlin injects nuance into the scholarly debate over the democratic deficit of IOs. His analyses of how civil society organisations shape the political liberalisation of the Asian Development Bank and ASEAN is important for demonstrating how non-governmental groups mediate their opportunity structure as well as providing insight into which strategies can succeed in changing IO policies towards greater transparency and accountability. This book is important for showing how people can make a difference, influencing IOs in the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. -- Susan Park, University of Sydney This is an impressive book exploring an important theme. Uhlin enriches the literature on governance beyond the nation state by systematically focusing on the opportunity structures and the advocacy strategies of civil society organizations interacting with international organizations in Asia. He authored a theory-guided, highly context-sensitive and empirically rich book that in a nuanced way assesses the participatory space of non-state actors in a significant region of the Global South. The book benefits from the author’s enormous expertise acquired in many years of intensive research on and with civil society organizations in the Asia-Pacific. -- Jürgen Rüland, Freiburg University

This valuable contribution offers a most thorough, sharp and systematic assessment of civil society action beyond the nation-state, and does so with a unique deep comparative study of regional institutions in Asia. -- Jan Aart Scholte, Professor of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg In this careful and considered book Uhlin injects nuance into the scholarly debate over the democratic deficit of IOs. His analyses of how civil society organisations shape the political liberalisation of the Asian Development Bank and ASEAN is important for demonstrating how non-governmental groups mediate their opportunity structure as well as providing insight into which strategies can succeed in changing IO policies towards greater transparency and accountability. This book is important for showing how people can make a difference, influencing IOs in the world's most populous and economically dynamic region. -- Susan Park, University of Sydney This is an impressive book exploring an important theme. Uhlin enriches the literature on governance beyond the nation state by systematically focusing on the opportunity structures and the advocacy strategies of civil society organizations interacting with international organizations in Asia. He authored a theory-guided, highly context-sensitive and empirically rich book that in a nuanced way assesses the participatory space of non-state actors in a significant region of the Global South. The book benefits from the author's enormous expertise acquired in many years of intensive research on and with civil society organizations in the Asia-Pacific. -- Jurgen Ruland, Freiburg University

This valuable contribution offers a most thorough, sharp and systematic assessment of civil society action beyond the nation-state, and does so with a unique deep comparative study of regional institutions in Asia. -- Jan Aart Scholte, Professor of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg In this careful and considered book Uhlin injects nuance into the scholarly debate over the democratic deficit of IOs. His analyses of how civil society organisations shape the political liberalisation of the Asian Development Bank  and ASEAN is important for demonstrating how non-governmental groups mediate their opportunity structure as well as providing insight into which strategies can succeed in changing IO policies towards greater transparency and accountability. This book is important for showing how people can make a difference, influencing IOs in the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. -- Susan Park, University of Sydney This is an impressive book exploring an important theme. Uhlin enriches the literature on governance beyond the nation state by systematically focusing on the opportunity structures and the advocacy strategies of civil society organizations interacting with international organizations in Asia. He authored a theory-guided, highly context-sensitive and empirically rich book that in a nuanced way assesses the participatory space of non-state actors in a significant region of the Global South. The book benefits from the author’s enormous expertise acquired in many years of intensive research on and with civil society organizations in the Asia-Pacific. -- Jürgen Rüland, Freiburg University

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Anders Uhlin is professor of political science at Lund University.

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