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'''Three general types''' of attitudes that | '''Three general types''' of attitudes that civic society organisations assume toward governmental and private players are opposition, co-operation, and co-option. | ||
'''Opposition''' is a clear ‘no’; absence of trust in the possibility to work together to remedy the existing state under existing conditions. At the global level, for instance, activists have fought over their position on the existence and the future of the Bretton Woods institutions (the World Bank and International Monetary Fund) and the World Trade Organisation. The one side consists of a number of respected activists predominantly of the Global South (including such personalities as Walden Bello of Focus on the Global South, and Anuradha Mittal of Oakland Institute of California), who doubt the possibility to reform these institutions and propose to dissolve them. In their opinion, the institutions not only fail to perform their functions in securing financial stability, development and trade, but are in fact directly responsible for global economic crises, indebtedness of poor countries, and inequitable rules of global trade (e.g., Bello, 2001; Cavanagh et al., 2002). | '''Opposition''' is a clear ‘no’; absence of trust in the possibility to work together to remedy the existing state under existing conditions. At the global level, for instance, activists have fought over their position on the existence and the future of the Bretton Woods institutions (the World Bank and International Monetary Fund) and the World Trade Organisation. The one side consists of a number of respected activists predominantly of the Global South (including such personalities as Walden Bello of Focus on the Global South, and Anuradha Mittal of Oakland Institute of California), who doubt the possibility to reform these institutions and propose to dissolve them. In their opinion, the institutions not only fail to perform their functions in securing financial stability, development and trade, but are in fact directly responsible for global economic crises, indebtedness of poor countries, and inequitable rules of global trade (e.g., Bello, 2001; Cavanagh et al., 2002). | ||
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There are many similar discussions and they appear often when the private sector or a political representation such as the UN, WB, IMF and others try to start a dialogue with their opponents. | There are many similar discussions and they appear often when the private sector or a political representation such as the UN, WB, IMF and others try to start a dialogue with their opponents. | ||
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