The growing role of NGOs in ASEAN

Aviel, JoAnn Fagot

doi:10.1080/13439009908720018

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“…The worldwide proliferation of NGOs in the 1990s reached Southeast Asia at the end of that decade. Since then, the Southeast Asian NGO scene has become more diversified and pluriform (Aviel 1999;Aviel 2000). While there is little doubt that the number of people oriented in grassroots groups and community organizations has increased, so have NGOs with a profound government, donor or business orientation (Reinalda 2001).…”

Section: Asean's Non-governmental Elitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The activist focus on ASEAN's so-called Track 2 and Track 3 diplomacy ignored the elitist character of these mechanisms (Caballero-Anthony 2005). The political role of non-governmental actors has been profoundly overrated in the Southeast Asian context (Aviel 1999;Aviel 2000: 17). In terms of the people/elite dialectics, critical ASEAN scholarship must not only engage in politically scrutinizing NGOs in Southeast Asia and but also determine which NGOs are serving their own interests and which ones are serving the people's interest (Petras & Veltmeyer 2001).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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