Civil Society Associations vs. So-called Non-governmental Organisations

Do­mestic lan­guage use makes a dis­tinc­tion between or­gan­isa­tions es­tab­lished on the basis of the in­ternal needs and ini­ti­at­ives of civil so­ci­ety, and non-gov­ern­mental or­gan­isa­tions, the lat­ter un­der­stood as form­a­tions cre­ated and op­er­ated as local agents of in­ter­na­tional net­works, from for­eign­ers’ in­tent and fund­ing. Al­though their pres­ence in the world is noth­ing new, the cur­rent large volume of such or­gan­isa­tions is the product of glob­al­ism and the pur­suit of global con­trol is the cause of their wide spread, ex­tent and net­work-like set-up and op­er­a­tion. The one-way dir­ec­tion from the start­ing point of the in­flu­ence to­wards the tar­get areas evokes the situ­ations of clas­sical col­on­isa­tion, al­though using the soft and hy­brid tools ad­ap­ted to our era. For this reason, as new forms of for­eign in­tru­sion and in­ter­ven­tion, they should ne­ces­sar­ily de­serve the na­tional se­cur­ity at­ten­tion and ap­proach that was once evoked by the former forms, re­gard­less of how this can be achieved in today’s legal situ­ation. However, the lack of dis­tinc­tion and the in­her­ent con­cep­tual am­bi­gu­ity already a pri­ori show the in­ten­tion to hide the genu­ine fea­tures of the lat­ter.