Notes
1. Detailed statistical data can be found on the II Forum of the America's website: http://www.forosocialamericas.org.
2. For an in-depth exploration of this topic, see Teivo Teivainen, Global Civil Society in Action?, in the forthcoming series ‘Re-thinking Globalizations’, published by Routledge and edited by Barry Gills.
3. See Christopher Chase-Dunn, The Institute for Research on World-Systems, The University of California Riverside: http://www.irows.ucr.edu/.