Role Of Non-State workers In International Relations
In the field of non-state actors of contemporary international relations, trans-national actors / organizations, inter-governmental actors, non-governmental actors or multinational actors are included. What distinguishes all non-state actors from each other is that although their activities affect people and goods in different states of the world, they are not formally associated with governments or states. The interactions between these non-state actors and their role in the international system are collectively called trans-national interactions.
Trans-national interactions include "the movement of all measurable and non-measurable elements across state borders when at least one of the actors is not an agent of anyone government or an inter-governmental organization." Many scholars even include the activities of inter-governmental organizations in the word of cross-national relations. Itis in this way that Kjele Szetzvac gives the name of institutionalized cross-national relations to the notion of cross-national relations. Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye Sr., whileanalyzing the development and activities of these non-state actors in international relations of our time, say, "A lot of inter-social interaction, which is very important,would have happened without government control. The state, in any case, is not the only doer inworld politics." Arnold Wolfer, who wrote two centuries ago, says, "The Vatican, theArab America Oil Company and many other non-state entities sometimes influence the course of international events." When this happens, these units become rivals of the actors, ie nation-states, in the international arena.Their ability to act as international or trans-national actors is based on the fact that individuals align themselves and their interests with the corporate body rather than with the nation-states. Much has changed in the world since Wolfer had said aptly and today much has changed under the influence of international relations, especially the role that non-state actors play in the international system. They have brought about a lot of changes in the traditional state-centred international system and have proved to be a means of making non-governmental international relations with the people, with the rules of the corporation and with the people in this international system.
