In modern times the interaction has
increased among the states as well as the peoples of these states, i.e. people
from one country interact with the people of other countries on the non-state
level. Due to the development in the communication sector, the emergence of the
worldwide web and the ease of access to different parts of the world people
have started to interact more frequently with one another. When people travel economic
transactions take place. These transactions are the very base of the unified economic
system that exists in the world today. This system works in a way in which the economies
of the states are dependent upon one another and the world acts as one big
global market.
This phenomenon gives rise to the
multinational companies that operate across the whole world and the world state
system does not mean much to them as all the people of the world, no matter
which state they belong to, are their potential consumers. They are satisfied
as long as they make profits because making profit is the ultimate goal that
these companies have. In the capitalist system that predominates almost all over
the world now the power of the state is judged mostly by its economic
prosperity. This gives a lot of power to these multinationals as they are the
pillars on which the states’ economies are perched. This way they become the
actors in the political game although they do not take part directly in the
politics. They run the country from the back seat as they have massive
influence over the state actors.
These multinationals are not the
only non-state actors that exist today. Different multinational organizations
i.e. NGOs and other pressure groups, for example the human rights activists and
religious activists, are examples of some other non-state forces that affect
the decisions the states make. The world state-system is still the basic framework
of the world but due to increased globalization these non-state actors are
becoming more and more powerful with each passing day.
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