The first anchoring practice, private actors pursuing public purposes,
subsumes all the normative and causal claims discussed above. Such
claims are inherently relational, political and contestable, and are contested
as often as they are accepted by societal and political partners in the
second anchoring practice. Together, the anchoring practices inevitably
entail multifaceted bridging dynamics. Each NGO generates and
embodies vertical bridging relations between society and state in each
country, horizontal (transnational) relations between societies, and
transverse relations between each society and other states, and its direct
partners connect to additional webs of partners. Hence, the potential
scale and complexity of any NGO network is breathtaking.