TGF 6: Nonstate Actors and the Challenge of Global Governance Flashcards
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Nongovernmental organizations
Transnational organizations of private citizens that include foundations, professional associations, multinational corporations, or groups in different countries joined together to work toward common interests.
Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)
Institutions created and joined by states’ governments, which give them authority to make collective decisions to manage particular problems on the global agenda.
Bilateral
Pertaining to relationships or agreements between two states.
Security community
A group of states whose high level of noninstitutionalized collaboration results in the settlement of disputes by compromise rather than by force.
Pooled sovereignty
Legal authority granted to an IGO by its members to make collective decisions regarding specified aspects of public policy heretofore made exclusively by each sovereign government.
Illiquidity
An inability to convert assets into cash quickly.
International regimes
Sets of principles, norms, and decision-making procedures agreed to by global actors to guide their behavior in particular issue-areas.
Ethnopolitical group
People whose identity is primarily defined by their sense of sharing a common ancestral nationality, language, cultural heritage, and kinship ties.
Indigenous peoples
The native ethnic and cultural inhabitant populations within countries ruled by a government controlled by others, referred to as the “Fourth World.”
Irredentism
Efforts by an ethnonational or religious group to regain territory by force so that existing state boundaries will no longer separate the group.
Secession
The attempt by a religious or ethnic minority to break away from an internationally recognized state.
Diasporas
The migration of religious or ethnic groups to foreign lands despite their continued affiliation with the land and customs of their origin.
Multinational corporations (MNCs)
Business enterprises headquartered in one state that invest and operate extensively in other states.
Transnational banks (TNBs)
The world’s top banking firms, whose financial activities are concentrated in transactions that cross state borders.
Strategic corporate alliances
Cooperation between MNCs and foreign companies in the same industry, driven by the movement of MNCS manufacturing overseas.
