Session 20: Acting with dubbed voices!

                 In their book "Transnational relations and World Politics" the writers Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye talk about how the shape of the world politics and the behavior of the states with the other states have changed through the course of recent history because of the influence of the "Non-state actors" which have came into play. They also talk about how the world has been contracted due to the recent developments in the field of communication, which has rendered this planet more coherent and interconnected. which is directly affecting the behavior of nation states.  

The influence of the non-state actors can be observed even more clearer when we observe the frequent interference various oil companies or pharmaceuticals or especially the arms suppliers, in the affairs of a state determining its behavior with the other countries. for instance,  Russian arms-export monopoly Rosoboronexport’s continuation of  arms sales to Iran had complicated US relations with Moscow and Tehran. 

the influence of non-state actors on the actions of the state in international arena can be traced back even to the 16th and 17th century where different privately owned companies fueled the colonization of different countries by the European states e.g. East India company which ruled the sub-continent until 1857 when it was formally under the control of British crown and many other such companies of Dutch and Portuguese origins which almost completely dominated the behavior of states with the other states.

It is more evident these days because of communicative developments that we observe the change in the behavior of states quite easily, when influenced by some organisation or company. But, this phenomenon is quite old.