January 27, 2000
'Foreign Policy': Rethinking Civil Society
Civil society, which has become "one of the favorite buzzwords among the global chattering classes," may have difficulty living up to its proponents' high expectations, says Thomas Carothers in Foreign Policy (Winter 1999-2000).
Mr. Carothers, who is vice-president for global policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tries to debunk some of what he considers to be common misconceptions about civil society. The idea, he says, emerged in
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