Introduction

  • Theoretical foundations of non-state actors
  • Historical trajectory of non-state actors
  • Globalization, policy liberalization and its impact on the State – non-state actors relationship, International Organizations – non-state actors
  • Non-state actors in global regulations
  • Non-state actors, diffusion of power and institutional mutations

Non-state actors: definitions, roles

  • Who are the non-state actors?
  • Non-state actors as political actors
  • Transnational networks of non-state actors

NGOs, foundations, think tanks, philanthropy: development & business

  • NGOs, think tanks, philanthropy and the corporate system
  • Corporations, charity and philanthropy and their relations with public and private structures, national, subnational and transnational cooperation, aid and development
  • NGOs, think tanks, foundations, philanthropy and power
  • NGOs, think tanks, foundations, philanthropy and the global business policy

Regulatory governance and non-state actors: principles, codes of conduct, voluntary standards

Codes of conduct and voluntary standards of non-state actors: conceptual analysis of normative frameworks (some examples of instruments: regulatory or voluntary, regulatory and self-regulatory, public and private)

Contemporary trajectory of principles, codes of conduct and voluntary standards/soft law: engagement of non-state actors and public actors in global issues

Non-state actors in public domains

Role of non-state actors in public domains: evolution and constraints of contemporary discourses: emergence and exercise of public and private authority/power

  • democracy
  • human rights
  • transparency
  • governance
  • service provision
  • accountability
  • corruption
  • compliance/ethics
  • global public goods: education, development, health, agriculture, water, environment/climate change, infrastructure, natural resources…
  • global reporting
  • international cooperation/aid & development
  • partnership
  • intellectual property
  • regulation/deregulation
  • authority

Stakeholders and the rhetoric of poverty

Stakeholder theory and fields of application

Stakeholders as policy decision-makers and the rhetorics of poverty

Non-state actors, governments, transnational corporations and business for development

  • Power politics in the management of aid, cooperation and development: government, business sector and NGOs-Non-governmental cooperation
  • How is the business/corporate sector (transnational corporations…) involved in sustainable development, health, education, infrastructure…?
  • Alliances and networks of non-state organizations linked to transnational corporations: business and the fight against global poverty (business fights poverty)

Networks, business and development in Latin America, Africa and Asia

  • Inclusive business and sustainable development
  • Network/discourse: business partnership
  • Non-state actors and transnational financing
  • Development and the private sector
  • Non-state actors, financing and partnership
  • Business cooperation, business-to-business and development, public and private sectors, transnational corporations and development, public-private cooperation between the North and the South

Non-state actors and diplomacy

  • Evolution of global diplomacy and international relations
  • Engagement of non-state actors in diplomacy/Non-governmental diplomacy: advocacy, diplomatic lobbying and the international sphere of policy-makers, policy-making
  • Non-state actors and sustainable development diplomacy
  • Multi-stakeholder diplomacy
  • The New Diplomacy
  • The New Economic Diplomacy > corporate diplomacy/Corporate diplomacy and its fields of intervention and interaction
  • Cultural diplomacy
  • Global Diplomacy/Regional Diplomacy/Global Diplomacy and Global Business
  • The new Public Diplomacy and NGOs
  • European Union, NGOs and Diplomacy

Challenges of non-state actors in international relations

  • Global economy in the discourses and practices of non-state actors
  • Non-state actors in global regulations
  • Non-state actors and international relations