In today’s international politics, many factors play a part in the decisions states make. One might think those factors were all intergovernmental, but that is not always the case. The factors that will be discussed in this paper are MNCs, IGOs, and NGOs. MNCs, or Multinational Corporations are privately owned corporations whose headquarters are in one state, but make deals and produce goods in other states as well. IGOs, or Intergovernmental Organizations, are organizations like the UN whose main purpose is to build bridges and keep peace between states. NGOs, or Nongovernmental Organizations, are groups that use funding to solve international issues, but don’t have an obligation to a state. Multinational Corporations, while not run by any …show more content…
What NGOs are mainly here to do, is to take funding from a state and “provide basic services, such as education and health care, the states are failing to provide” (Mansbach and Rhodes, 216). But not only can they do the jobs the states are unable to do economically, they are also able to do the jobs states are unable to do regarding sovereignty. Right now, “NGOs and nonfailing states–and NGOs and businesses–are developing complex, symbiotic relationships” (Mansbach and Rhodes, 216), meaning they are influencing the variables that influence not only the United States, but international politics as well. NGOs have been building and nurturing relationships with the government, but not taking the title or responsibility to have so many limitations to what they can do. Not only do they just do the jobs governments can’t, they do the jobs that help others. States are more than happy to give funding to NGOs for their service. NGOs also have the ability to receive donations from private donors. Although this is very helpful, according to Mansbach and Rhodes, “The focus of such NGOs can easily shift from finding solutions and helping needy recipients to pleasing their donors and winning television coverage” (220). It has been argued that NGOs aren’t running things as independently as they had been. This being said, some are saying that being run by the government, in a way, could give you more power when it comes to getting jobs done. NGOs have a very big influence on states and international politics because of their ability to carry out jobs without many limitations, that if a state did, they would be questioned for their sovereignty. Some NGOs, on the other hand, have created a relationship with states that could hinder their ability to get certain jobs done, but other big jobs could get done because of the
The United Nations General Assembly 36-103 focused on topics of hostile relations between states and justification for international interventions. Specifically mentioned at the UNGA was the right of a state to perform an intervention on the basis of “solving outstanding international issues” and contributing to the removal of global “conflicts and interference". (Resolution 36/103, e). My paper will examine the merits of these rights, what the GA was arguing for and against, and explore relevant global events that can suggest the importance of this discussion and what it has achieved or materialized.
Intergovernmental Organizations do many different things for the international world. They make collective goods, mediate, provide information and even authorize retaliation. One of the fundamental ideas behind IGO’s is that states will value their membership, and want to comply and contribute to ensure their membership and alliance to the IGO as well as the other members. Thus, in a perfect world if all states complied with IGO guidelines, there would be very little to no conflict. Naturally this doesn’t always happen and unfortunately conflict can arise from a lack of compliance. A recent example of this is Russia and their invasion and attempt to annex Crimea.
International organizations such as NATO and the UN are essential not only for global peace, but also as a place where middle powers can exert their influence. It is understandable that since the inception of such organizations that many crises have been averted, resolved, or dealt with in some way thro...
Although UN faces myriad challenges when get states together to follow UN’s norms and “blueprints”, it becomes progressively geared towards its ‘utopian’ goal ,during the time that the UN struggle to coordinate the states’ action and keep the international community in peace. Neo-liberalists are also argued that the international organisations like UN represent a liberal self-understanding and a liberal vision of the role which has shaped the international order in terms of decolonisation, human rights, environmental protection and international law. Neo-liberalists highlighted the significance of the cooperation between UN and regional organizations, as these regional organisations become inseparable in the process of international diplomatic predicting, “the international community will increasingly direct itself towards combined action of the universal Organization with regional bodies.” (Cassese: 2005: 338) This Link can be found between the UN and other regional organizations such as the European Union, Association of South East Asian Nations, the African Union, the Arab League and so on. This is widely regarded by neon-liberalists as they believe IOs are able to reformulate the behaviour of States. It is also proved the failure of neorealism that who underestimate the utility and wide influence of international organizations,. Further discussion about their motivations to how IOs influence States conduct by both promoting cooperation amongst members whilst at the same time putting the leash on those with non-cooperative behaviours, like trade sanctions. Navari argue that once cooperation amongst States is institutionalised, States would be cautious to leave it, because they fear of the uncertain consequences. (Navari: 2009: 39) European Union is a good example, as once European countries take part in the formal membership they have been
Non-government organisations (NGO) are a diverse group of private organisations set up to engage in a wide variety of activities such as building schools, reporting on human rights, advocacy of the poor, climate change and disease prevention. NGOs are usually set up as charities or not for profit, meaning any profit they do make goes back into funding the services they provide. The number of NGOs is rapidly increasing and world wide there is an estimated 10 million NGOs. To give a bit of scale, in a country like India which has a population of 1.2 billion people there is approximately one NGO for every 400 people in the country. One of the most prominent and well known NGOs working across the globe is Amnesty International
As stated above, there are various actors in the international community. These actors include intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations who help shape the foundation and creation of human rights. IGOs and NGOs listen to the international community to monitor and protect their human rights. According to the textbook, nongovernmental organization have been especially vocal and effective in the international system when it comes to human rights. NGOs groups that have a great impact on human rights through specific groups like Amnesty International, and the Human Rights Watch. IGOs and NGOs make the public aware of human rights issues, put pressure on good and bad states to confront issues, and lobby international organizations. As stated
I have learned that the role of non-governmental organizations is much needed for developing states. Non-governmental organizations supposedly have a big role to play in advancement as they usually provide services and utilities that help bolster families in developing nations. For example, when one volunteers with a non-governmental organization, as emphasized in the game, they have the opportunity to get more education, develop more skills needed for a decent career and the local community benefits with utilities such as soccer field for kids, local library and local community
The number on international organizations is on the increase because many nations are seeing the importance of uniting to enable them in achieving their set objectives. Similarly, there are many challenges, which nations face such terrorism, economic downturn, corruption, civil war among others that call for international community to intervene. Similarly, international organizations have a rich history which dates back decades ago when nations saw the need of pulling their resources together to enable them have strengths of overcoming different problems. Hence, international organizations play a critical role in ensuring member nations or nations within their operation area benefits from service offered. Similarly, international
Outside if politics, there are also groups called NGOs: (Non-governmental Organizations) that are not run by state or local governments that operate as nonprofits organizations; these groups have created a web of global development networks in response to governmental decision making dominated by the core (e.g., WTO, IMF, World Bank). A main point of NGOs is to have undeveloped and developing countries participate. Unfortunately, this is sometimes seen as counter-hegemonic, which is where nations dominate other nations, both economically and politically.
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) comprises of a wide variation of groups. As definition varies, it would be demanding to elucidate the entity where NGOs are basically non-profit organisations that is “independent of government and depend in whole or in part on charitable donations and voluntary services” (Serina Rahman, 2016). In Brunei Darussalam, there is no distinct explanation for this term as it is deemed to be ambiguous. Despite that, Brunei still has a wide variation but a limited number of registered NGOs from focusing on humanities, to environmental aspects, which all are under surveillance of the government. In the case of environmental NGOs (ENGOs), they focus on long-term sustainable management and conservation in the field
Liberalism emphasizes democracy on making international corporation available. The democratic peace theory also highlights democratic states are less likely to have war with each others. Secondly, non state actors, such as red cross and human right watch, have the same important role in the international stage than government-state actor. Finally, international organizations and global civil can nonetheless generate spaces for cooperation and create the conditions for meaningful joint action.(Ikenberry)
An NGO (non-governmental organization) is a normal people/citizen-based organization that works independently from the government. An NGO is usually made up from mostly volunteers, who work because they want to help normal people like themselves. Even though an NGO is independent it is transparent which means the governments can see what they are doing. The reason this needs to be done is because the NGO can be putting all the money they get in their own pockets instead of helping people. NGO are totally neutral, which means they are never for one side or the other. The reason this needed is because, for example in a war if one side suspects the NGO is working with the other side they wouldn’t let them enter their borders. They give humanitarian aid!
The book “The Two Faces of Civil Society: NGOs and Politics in Africa” examines how non-governmental organizations contribute to democratization in Africa and what conditions constrain their contributions. The process of how NGOs alter state-society relations is a process that unfolds and has determinants that include organization, resources, alliances and political opportunities while the limits that they can also go to constrain them (Ndegwa, 1996:1). NGOs remain important in the spread of democracy in Africa and the study sees this as the point of transition in Kenya from single party state to multi party state at the time of the author’s work. It looks at liberalization from the undemocratic governments and how to conceptualize civil society in the context of political change in Africa (Ndegwa, 1996:2).
Globalization and the increasing role of non-state actors have shifted the position of states, the traditional “main players” in global governance. However, whether this change undermines states is debatable. In one sense, states’ roles have somewhat diminished: Non-governmental entities – namely transnational corporations (TNC), but also global non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others – have an increasing voice in global policy debates, which may lessen states’ influence in governmental affairs. But in several other key ways, states’ retain their powerful role. For example, states remain the key negotiators and entities in major global governance entities. Additionally, states retain compulsory power over their subjects or constituents, a form of control that new players in global governments have generally not obtained.
The international system is an anarchical system which means that, unlike the states, there is no over ruling, governing body that enforces laws and regulations that all states must abide by. The International System in today’s society has become highly influential from a number of significant factors. Some of these factors that will be discussed are Power held by the state, major Wars that have been fought out in recent history and international organisations such as the U.N, NATO and the W.T.O. Each of these factors, have a great influence over the international system and as a result, the states abilities to “freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development”.