next Tuesday - Pallas and Bloodgood, "Beyond the Boomerang"

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Mark Schuller

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Apr 4, 2024, 6:15:19 PM4/4/24

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Hello friends,

I hope you are all well. So good to see some folks in Santa Fe!

Next Tuesday, 3/9, 2-3:30 p.m. Central, Christopher Pallas and Elizabeth Bloodgood will discuss Beyond the Boomerang: Advocacy in International Politics. This topic resonates with the work that many of us are doing.

Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink introduced the boomerang theory in their 1998 book, Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. It remains one of the first broadly applicable theories for why groups of NGOs and interested individuals form transnational advocacy networks. Since its publication, however, the empirical conditions that prompted their theory have changed. In Beyond the Boomerang: From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics, editors Christopher L. Pallas and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood offer cutting-edge scholarship that synthesizes a new theoretical framework to develop a coherent, integrated picture of the current dynamics in global advocacy. This new theory of transcalar advocacy focuses on advocacy activities and policy impacts that transcend different levels or scales of political action. In transcalar advocacy, all NGOs–northern and southern–are treated as strategic actors, choosing the targets, scales of advocacy, and partnerships that best suit their capacities and goals.

As always, the public is welcome and registration is free. Please visit go.niu.edu/BeyondtheBoomerang