Re: Non State Actors and diplomacy --- Excellent response, Souhila! What else might explain the rise and relevance of non-state actors in the international sphere, other than or related to technology and technological topics?

• Is the world more socially networked nowadays?
• Do we see greater public awareness, i.e. everything that happens locally can be made public globally and cause effects?
• Is there greater emancipation among non-state actors to engage in political issues?
• Are state governments gaining more or less competences to take care of societal issues?
• Hpw does agencification, i.e. the outsourcing of state-competences to quasi-/non-state actors, relate to the afore-raised question?

Source author: Tim Flink tim.flink@hu-berlin.de