Non-State Actors in World Politics

D. Josselin, W. Wallace

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• ISBN:
  9781403900906
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterised as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. Non-state Actors in World Politics offers analyses of a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organised crime.

Table of contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
• 1. Non-state Actors in World Politics: a Framework
• 2. The Romance of Non-state Actors
• 3. The Catholic Church as a Transnational Actor
• 4. Political Parties in a Global Age
• 5. Non-state Actors as Moral Entrepreneurs: a Transnational Perspective on Ethics Networks
• 6. Policy Networks, Non-state Actors and Internationalized Policy-making: a Case Study of Agricultural Trade
• 7. The ‘Policy Research’ Knowledge Elite and Global Policy Processes
• 8. Transnational Corporations and Global Environmental Politics
• 9. Unravelling the Faustian Bargain: Non-state Actors and the Multilater”N K»ëh1µµÊ_à–-Á‡µT´jÉUw
• 10. Back to the Front Line? Trade Unions in a Global Age
• 11. Outsourcing War
• 12. Underworld and Upperworld: Transnational Organized Crime and Global Society
• 13. Diasporas in World Politics
• 14. Islamist Movements as Non-state Actors and their Relevance to International Relations
• 15. Non-state Actors in World Politics: the Lessons
• References
• Index