Nonstate Actors International Business Discussion

Overview

1. Why study nonstate actors as a field of international politics? Will this persist in the future or do you see a swing back to sovereignty as the key organizing principle for the field?
2. The study of international society is marked by rules, power, and ideas. While they are not mutually exclusive, these schools of thought try to explain how the world works. Which has the most explanatory power and why?
3. How might nonstate groups like businesses, terrorists, religious groups, resistance groups, criminal organizations, and protest movements capitalize on changes in state sovereignty and the rise of globalization? Give examples identifying specific strategies of actors in this context. 
4. An undercurrent theme of this course is that the political economy of globalization has provided a structural change to actors in international society. How?
5. (Optional Extra Credit) What theme, concept, or idea from the class was most significant for you and that you will take with you into the remainder of your academic career? Be specific.