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Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization.

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Introduction; D.Kostovicova & M.Glasius PART I: GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: AN EMERGING REALITY Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents; D.Archibugi & D.Held The Umma: From Global Civil Society to Global Public Sphere; H.R.Ezzat Civility and Global Civil Society: The Missing Link; H.K.Anheier Cosmopolitan Intimacies and Sexual Politics in Global Civil Society; H.Seckinelgin Dissident Writings: Prefiguring Global Civil Society?; M.Glasius PART II: HUMAN SECURITY: FROM STATES TO PEOPLE External State-building and Transnational Networks: The Limits of the Civil Society Approach; D.Kostovicova & V.Bojicic-Dzelilovic A Bottom-up Approach to Redressing Past Violations of Human Rights; C.Chinkin & I.Rangelov The Degeneration of Cosmopolitan Wars; M.J.Faber From Counter-force to Human Security? Experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan; M.Theros & Y.Said Peace and the People: How the European Union Rewrites Security; G.Schmeder & M.Martin PART III: BOTTOM-UP GLOBALIZATION Appropriating Normative Geopolitics: Civil Society, International Law, and the Future of the United Nations; R.Falk Chipko and Grameen Bank: Women´s Responses of Resistance and Accommodation with Capital; M.Desai Globalization and the Study of Global Politics from Below: Preparing the Ground for an Alternative Approach; S.Selchow Against All Odds: The Urbanizing of Human Security?; S.Sassen Old New Wars: Global History from Below; E.Rothschild Conclusion: Can Global Civil Society Answer the Hobbesian Problem?; M.Albrow

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