chapter 7: nongovernmental organizations and the shape of the global future

Chapter 7: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Shape of the Global Future

Chapter 7: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Shape of the Global Future

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Nongovernmental Organizations

• Private interest groups

• Allow individuals to participate in global affairs

• About 30,000 total

• Often work with IGOs such as the UN

• Challenge state sovereignty


Trends in the Number of NGOs Since 1956


Indigenous Ethnic Groups

• Nonstate nations in the Fourth World

• Ethnopolitical groups: Common nationality, language, cultural tradition, kinship ties

• Form cultural domains that can cross national borders

• Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Syria

• Clash of civilizations?


The Indigenous Cultures of the World


The World’s Major Civilizations: Will Their Clash Create Global Disorder?


Religious Movements (1 of 2)

• Politically active organization based on strong religious convictions

• Theocracy • Extreme militant religious movements

1. They view existing government authority as corrupt and illegitimate because it is secular

2. They attack the inability of government to address the domestic ills of the society

3. They believe that government and all its domestic and foreign activities must be in the hands of believers

4. They are universalists

5. They are exclusionists

6. They are militant


Major Religions of the World


Religious Movements (2 of 2)

• Militant religious movements tend to stimulate five specific types of international activities: Irredentism Secession or separative revolts Migration Diasporas International terrorism


Transnational Terrorist Groups

• Terrorism today very different from the past

• More lethal• Waged by civilians • Technology• Postmodern terrorism• War in Lebanon and Hezbollah• Difficulty in defining terrorism


Multinational Corporations

• Primary agents of globalization of production

• Foreign direct investment• Transnational banks• Reduce political borders• Distributed wealth unevenly• Impact domestic politics• Globally integrated enterprise• Strategic corporate alliances


Transnational Advocacy Networks (TANs)

• Lobbying governments

• Setting agendas

• Providing services


Issue-Advocacy and Global Civil Society: Can NGOs Transform World Politics?

• NGOs as a democratic force

• Networks of NGOs have contributed to the emergence of global civil society

• Low politics

• Single issue NGOs more influential

• NGOs compete with one another to influence decision makers


Web Links

• United Nations

• The World Trade Organization

• International Monetary Fund

• European Union

http://www.un.org/

http://www.wto.org/

http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

http://europa.eu/

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