Transnational Actors and Coporations

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Question 5
Transnational actors have increasingly gained power in international politics. They have become strength that cross the traditional boundaries which set up by nation states and gradually shifted the focus in international politics from old school thoughts of state actors to a much more discursive range of concerns about considerable number of potential actors. This kind of transnational actor is including transnational corporations (TNCs), individuals, international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), and international governmental organizations. The emergence of transnational actors is not new and played a role for centuries, but came into power recently after Second World War. The reason can be attributed to the diminishing concern of traditional military security conflicts and threats among states, instead of growing new types of threat. Besides, the complexity of domestic interests also makes different actors seeking for their own power in international negotiation.
In brief, the shared trait of all the transnational actors is that interactions among different actors are much free. It is no longer relied on the traditional way between governments which state government becomes the headquarters dealing with all international affairs. Instead, actors from society of one country can directly interact and communicate with both government and society of another country. And sometimes it is not necessarily to go through the procedure of its own government.
Transnational Corporations
Specifically to see, for the TNCs, it is an expansion of domestic company to an international level by having subsidiaries in other countries in the desire of exploring cheap labor force, natural resources, or new market and so on. The ...

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Conclusion
I think all of these transnational actors should have more influence than before. Because they are unlikely to the governments sometimes cannot deal with problem if it is not fit for their interests. And in the globalization era, single government will not have enough resources and power to solve some problems that have external factors. Therefore, it is necessarily to have these transnational actors. However, there is also negative effect such as in the coffee crisis that giant coffee roaster companies in terms of TNCs using their advantage to take arbitrage from developing countries via lower cost of purchasing coffee beans. It results in the poverty of coffee farmers and threatening their basic living standard. Hence, in my opinion, it is undoubtedly that transnational actors also need certain levels of limitation and regulation.

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