TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Democracy Promotion and the Transnationalization of Politics: Perspectives from Below Boris Pétric and Giorgio Blundo (EHESS, Marseille) 1: From Advocacy to Political Engagement State, NGOs and 'Good Governance' Policies in Senegal Giorgio Blundo (EHESS, Marseille) 2: Electoral Observation and NGO Coalitions in Kyrgyzstan Boris Pétric 3: Think Tanks: Actors in The Transition to Global Politics: A Bulgarian Case Study Dostena Anguelova-Lavergne (EHESS, Paris) 4: The Question of Presumed Political Prisoners in Azerbaïdjan : Conditionalities of The Council of Europe Raphaelle Mathey (postdoctoral fellow, EHESS, Paris) 5: Participating Decentralization in Bolivia : The Geneaology of An Institutional Transplant David Recondo (Sciences Po, Paris) 6: Democracy Promotion, Local Participation and Transnational Governmentality in Afghanistan Alessandro Monsutti (IHEID, Geneva) 7: NGOs and The State: Clash or Class? Circulating Elites of 'Good Governance' in Serbia Theodora Vetta (PhD student, EHESS, Paris) 8: Multiple Sovereignty and Trans-nationalism in A Nation State: Aga Khan Development Network in Hunza, Pakistan Shafqat Hussain (Trinity College) 9: Jakarta's Spring, Democracy-building, Organizations and The Renaissance of Indonesian Multipartism Romain Bertrand (sciences po, CERI) 10: Nigeria, 'Democrazy' and The German Political Foundations Marc Antoine Pérouse de Montclos (Institut de Recherche pour le développement) 11: Cuba's Democratic transition: in search of the event Dejan Dimitrijevic (Nice University, France)