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MSc International Relations 2011-12: IR411

Foreign Policy Analysis

Week 9: Non-state Actors and foreignpolicy:

Globalisation and theinfluence of Multinational,

non-governmental,

transnational and inter-governmental organisations

on foreign policy

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End-of-Year Drinks Reception

for Current and Prospective Members under 35

on

Monday 5 December at Arundel House

Drinks and canaps at 18:00 followed by presentations at 18:30

Learn more about the IISS and to network with the IISS research staff.

Remarks will be given by

Professor Sir Michael Howard

President Emeritus, IISSDr John Chipman

Director-General and Chief Executive

Adam WardDirector of Studies

Virginia ComolliResearch Analyst and Administrative Assistant

to the Director for Transnational Threat and Political Risk

Jasper PandzaResearch Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme

Jens WardenaerEditorial Assistant, Armed Conflict Database

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RSVP:

Charlotte Laycock on events@iiss.org

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The foreign policy decision maker

under Globalisation?

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There is no clear division today between what is foreign and

what is domestic

Bill Clinton, Presidential Inauguration Speech, 20 January

1993.

1. "... the locus of effective political power can no longer beassumed to be in national governments - effective power isshared and bartered by diverse forces and agencies at

national, regional and international levels.2. "the idea of a political community ... of a self-determining

collectivity - can no longer meaningfully be located withinthe boundaries of a single nation-state alone.

3. "criss-crossing loyalties, conflicting interpretations of rights

and duties, interconnected legal and authority structures.David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and JonathanPerraton, Global Transformations, Politics, Economics andCulture , (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999).

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Lecture Plan:

1: Introduction.2: Globalisation and the complexity of foreign policy

decision making.

3: How to understand the effects of Globalisation on

foreign policy decision making:

A: The Transformationalists

B: Globalisation as state driven

5: Economic effects.

6: Transnational actors and foreign policy decision

makers.

7: Conclusions: its still the state.

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David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and

Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations, Politics,

Economics and Culture:Three broad understandings of globalisations effects

on foreign policy decision making and the state:

The hyperglobalisers: market forces rule,

The sceptics: the world economy is dominated by

three large trading blocs with powerful national

governments

The transformationalists: present situation is

historically unprecedented and states and societies

are going to have to adapt

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Robert Keohane:

Sovereignty is best understood less

as a territorially defined barrier

than a bargaining resource for an

international politics

characterised by complextransnational networks

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Globalisation as state driven

Justin Rosenberg, Globalisation Theory: aPost-Mortem , International Politics, Vol. 42,Issue 1, March 2005, 2-74.

Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, GlobalCapitalism and American Empire, in LeoPanitch and Colin Leys (eds), The new imperialchallenge, Socialist Register, 2004, (London,Merlin Press, 2003),

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A taxonomy of international actors:

Territorial: They either use or seek to

obtain some territorial base

Ideological/cultural: They seek topromote ideas or ways of thinking across

national frontiers

Economic: Their primary focus is wealth-creation.

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State relations with transnational

actors:

Normal

Bargaining

Competitive

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Two different approaches to understanding

the role of INGOs in Foreign Policy Analysis:

1: Paul Wapner, Politics Beyond the State;

Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics,

World Politics, 47, 3, April 1995, pp. 311-40 / RichardPrice, Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil

Society Targets Land Mines, International

Organisation, 52, 3, Summer 1998, pp. 613-644.

2: Kim D. Reimann, A View from the Top: InternationalPolitics, Norms and the Worldwide Growth of NGOs,

International Studies Quarterly(2006) 50, pp. 4567.

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Conclusions: Its still all about states; they

just have different capacities. A: State institutions because they too (like economic,

ideological and military institutions) provide necessaryconditions for social existence: the regulation of aspects ofsocial life which are distinctively territorially centred. Thusthey cannot be the mere consequence of other sources of

social power. B: Since states vary greatly, if (A) is true, these [state]

variations will cause variations in other spheres of social life.Even within Europe states differ Across the globe, variationsdramatically increase: in degree of democracy, level ofdevelopment, infrastructural power, geopolitical power,

national indebtedness, etc. .variations cause variationamong these forces, and so limit globalisation.

Michael Mann, Has globalisation ended the rise and rise of thenation-state? Review ofInternational Political Economy, 4:3,autumn 1997, pp. 472-496.