The International Journal
of Not-for-Profit Law
Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2004
A publication of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
The Pacific
Social Inclusion and the Indigenous People of Australia: Achieving a Better Fit Between Social Need and the Charity Law Framework
Kerry O'Halloran
Australia Crawls Closer to Reform of the Definition of Charity
Myles McGregor-Lowndes
Consultations Toward Legal Reform in Tuvalu
James Duckworth and Mose Saitala
Social Capital and Philanthropy in Maori Society
Tuwhakairiora Williams and David Robinson
The Challenges Facing American Nonprofits
Deterring Donors: Anti-Terrorist Financing Rules and American Philanthropy
Barnett F. Baron
A Needless Silence: American Nonprofits and the Right to Lobby
Jeffrey M. Berry
The Nonprofit Paradox: For-Profit Business Models in the Third Sector
Bill E. Landsberg
Articles
Survival Strategies for Civil Society Organizations in China
Julia Greenwood Bentley
An Introduction to Canadian Tax Treatment of the Third Sector
Robert Hayhoe
"Organized" Civil Society and Its Limits
Antonio Itriago and Miguel Angel Itriago
The Fiscal Framework for Corporate Philanthropy in CEE and NIS
David Moore
Defining Characteristics of Civil Society
Timothy J. Peterson and Jon Van Til
The Alchemy of Success: The Case of Corporate Responsibility
Simon Zadek
Civil Society at the Movies
Rod Smolla
Reviews
The Civil Society Reader
Edited by Virginia A. Hodgkinson and Michael W. Foley
Reviewed by Morgan Meis
The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in
Poetry and Prose
Edited by Amy A. Kass
Does Civil Society Matter?: Governance in Contemporary India
Edited by Rajesh Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty
The State of Civil Society in Japan
Edited by Frank J. Schwartz and Susan J. Pharr
Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea
Edited by L. Gordon Flake and Scott Snyder
The Legal and Regulatory Framework for CSO Self-Financing in Colombia;
The Legal and Regulatory Framework for CSO Self-Financing in Chile
By Nicole Etchart, Brian Milder, Maria Cecilia Jara, and Lee Davis
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Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea
Edited by L. Gordon Flake and Scott Snyder
The focus here is not on North Korean NGOs, but on foreign NGOs that operate in North Korea. For these organizations, writes Scott Snyder, "the learning curve ... has been steep, and the lessons have been stark.... North Korea has provided a working environment and set of challenges unlike any other the international humanitarian relief community has faced." Snyder is the Asia Foundation's representative in Seoul; his coeditor, L. Gordon Flake, is executive director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. Their book assesses the role of European, American, and South Korean NGOs in North Korea, and the many hindrances they have faced. In the concluding chapter, Snyder predicts that North Korea's interference with humanitarian NGOs may ultimately prove counterproductive: "The more deeply disaffected the NGO community becomes as a result of constraints imposed on its ability to do good through its work, the stronger the momentum for NGO-led external public criticism of North Korea will become. Foreign governments will respond by minimizing the very assistance without which the North Korean regime can no longer survive."