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Approaches in IR dealing with global civil society have a limited understanding of the capitalist state. Consequently, these approaches construct NGOs as part of a global civil society that is empirically and normatively vague. Relations of dominance largely disappear from view, in parts creating an understanding of NGOs as a coherent force for good. The argument supported in this book is that theoretical considerations about the relationship of NGOs and the state have to be grounded in an understanding of the capitalist state and the international system.
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Tepe, D. (2012). NGOs and Materialist State Theory. In: The Myth about Global Civil Society. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355552_3
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