The End of the Age of NGOs?

The End of the Age of NGOs?

How civil society lost its post–Cold War power.

The End of the Age of NGOs? - Other News - Voices against the tide

By Sarah Bush* and Jennifer Hadden* – Foreign Affairs How Civil Society Lost Its Post–Cold War Power. The 1990s were a golden age for nongovernmental organizations. It was a time when well-known groups such as Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Oxfam grew their budgets and expanded their global reach. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of international NGOs—not-for-profit groups that are largely independent from government and work in multipl…