2 Quotes by Nicolas Guilhot

Today, the qualifications requiredfor senior positions within NGOs reflect the evolution of those activistswho have also become managers: trained in law, business administration,or finance, experienced, with a good capacity to “liaise” with politicalcircles or the business community, their profile often does not substantiallydiffer from those of corporate managers.

Whether the labor unions and the socialists yesterday, or NGOs andhuman rights activists today, these forces increasingly tend to provide theexternal envelope of a power reshaping polities, societies, and economies ona global scale according to the prescriptions of a new reason of State.