ABSTRACT
To understand the power of civil society movements and groups, we have to understand the Great Transformation of the state-centred order per se. The exclusive scenario according to which nation-states and the system of international relations between states determined the space of collective political action is broken down from both the inside and the outside at the same time and is successively replaced by a more complex, border transcending subpolitical and global political ‘meta-power game’, one that changes the rules of power, is full of paradoxes, unpredictable and open ended. Exactly what does this mean, though?
