Moral Victories: How Activists Provoke Multilateral Action

Moral Victories: How Activists Provoke Multilateral Action. By Susan Burgerman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.186p. $29.95. Ann Marie Clark, Purdue University A lot of scholarly attention has been devoted to demonstrating that transnational activists "matter" in explaining international outcomes. Having paid those dues, it can be argued that scholars of transnational activity can safely shift from a documentary focus to a more profound inquiry concerning how, why, and to what extent nonstate actors matter. On the other hand, to understand the work of transnational activists for the international implementation of moral and legal standards-not a completely new area of inquiry, but a burgeoning one-still requires a considerable amount of empirical documentation of exactly what that work entails.