CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Uzun, Nil |
|---|---|
| Title | National Settings and Transnational NGOs: Comparative Study of Amnesty International in Argentina and Turkey |
| Summary | The proliferation of so called NGOs have roused several discussions addressing the definition of the term, the roles these organizations take, the opportunities they provide, the threats they introduce to local communities and different methodologies for studying them. Among these arguments, global deductive approaches tend to underestimate the different outcomes of national historical trajectories on transnational embeddedness while purely local approaches fail to consider similar patterns emerging from different localities. This study examines the ways in which national histories and institutional fields might influence the role of transnational NGOs and in return the types of interactions between them and the local organizations. By analyzing the role of Amnesty International (AI) in Argentina and Turkey, this research seeks out an approach which explores the critical junctures that connect local, national and transnational processes. This comparative case study reveals that AI occupies strikingly different positions in these two countries, at the same time human rights fields present several similar characteristics. By investigating these cases, I argue that particular network structures are historically produced through the interactions of national and transnational actors, so that the roles of transnational organizations within these networks are constrained and enabled by national institutional settings. |
| Supervisor | Vedres, Balazs; Kalb, Don. |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/uzun_nil.pdf |
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