ABSTRACT
Source: Activists beyond Borders: Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1998), pp. 9-29.
Keck and Sikkink identify transnational advocacy networks, based on principled ideas and values, as a key feature of a world characterized by growing transnational relations. Such networks increase the access and the voice available to citizens in the international system, and can provide resources both in international and in domestic political processes. Because such networks blur the boundaries between domestic and international politics, they challenge practices of national sovereignty, and thus the centrality of state authorities in world politics.
