The emergence and rise of the global social movement : Focusing on the transnational civil movements in 2008 Toyako G8 Summit

全球社会运动（Global Social Movement，简称GSM）是一种遍及全球的民事行动形式，出现于20世纪的最后几十年。在世界贸易组织部长级会议和八国集团/二十国集团首脑会议等国际政治和经济事件中，经常可以看到它的宣传和实际活动。然而，关于GSM形成的动力学和机制所知甚少。本研究从组织阶段、抗议行动的形成，到其背后的文化因素，探讨了GSM的出现和影响，并取得了几项重要的研究成果，这些成果将被列为社会学和政治学学术领域的贡献。

Global Social Movement (=GSM), a form of civil action that runs throughout the globe, has emerged in the last decades of the 20^<th> century. Its campaigns and actual activities are often observed in occasions of international political and economic events, such as the WTO ministerial and the G8/G20 Summits. Little has been known, however, about the dynamics and mechanisms in the formation of the GSM. This study has explored the emergence and the impact of the GSM, investigating from organizational phase, formation of the protest action, to its cultural factors that lie behind the GSM, and has achieved several important research findings that will be listed as contributions to the academic area of sociology and political science.