Foreign Donors

[...]a well-known problem faced by NGOs working in the developing world is that NGOs are often forced to become depoliticized actors to avoid angering the authorities, or, because the West Bank has increasingly been controlled by one political party, NGOs have been forced to either align themselves with Fatah or engage in a complex cat-and-mouse game for political independence. [...]Challand perhaps does not see the need to dene what it is he expects civil society to do; his answer seems to be that because the usage of the term civil society is widespread, it must refer to something that is analytically similar to the theoretical conception of civil society. [...]although it is beyond the scope of this review, Bourdieus concept of habitus arguably suggests that civil society discourse has taken on a life of its own in the region, distinct from what theory says civil society should be in order to serve a legitimating function.