NGOs, Networks, and Social Movements.

1. Nonstate Actors:
NGOs,
Networks, and
Social
Movements
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2. Non-State Actors in Action
 Emergence of political process of NGOs in
the scope of Global Governance:
 An ınternational treaty to ban landmines,
 Multilateral Agreement on investment.

3. The range of Nonstate Actors
 Nonstate actors are key elements of global
governance like states.
 They do not have sovereignty and same
power resources as states.
 NGOs
 Transnational Networks and Coalitions
 Experts and Epistemic Communities
 Foundations
 Multinational Corporations
 Multistakeholder Actors
 Social Movements

4. NGOs
 Most common types of nonstate actors.
 Voluntary organizations.
 Formed by indivuduals
 Most of NGOs hadquartered in developed
countries.
 In general, NGOs are organized around broad
issues.

5. Transnational Networks and
Coalitions
 Bring NGOs together,
 Creat multi-level linkages between different
organizations.
 Block or promote shared goals.
 For instance, World Wildlife Fund, UN
Environment Programme(coalition with IGOs)

6. Experts and Epistemic
Communities
 Composed of experts from governtmen
agencies, research institutes, private industry,
and universities.
 To share knowledge through transnational
networks.
 To frame issues for collectives.
 To propose specific solutions.

7. Foundations
 Founded by individuals families or
corporations.
 Non profit organizations.(legal )
 Important in funding a variety of international
programs such as international peace,
population control programs…

8. Multinational Corporations
 Special type of NGOs.
 Engage in for-profit business.
 Important parts of global economy.
 Operation across national borders.
 Work in partnership within a multistakeholder
coalition.

9. Multistakeholder Actors
 Bring together all those interested in or
affected by an issue,
 They can analyze or help hammer out a
consensus and translate that consensus
among its members by conflicting
perspective.

10. Social Movements
 A looser mass-based association of
individuals and groups.
 Aim at to change the status quo.
 In general form around classes such as
religion, region, language or goals such
human rights, development…
 Play key roles in social movements to help to
ussues.

11. The Growth of Nonstate Actors
 The growth has been exponential since World
War II in certain issue areas such as
environment, and human rights.
 Advances in communication and transportation.
(communication revolution)
 Global conferences .

12. NGO Roles
 Create an mobilize networks,
 Advocate changes in policies and
governance,
 Promote new norms,
 Monitor human rights and environmental
norms,
 Participate in global conferences…