1. Transnational Actors and International organizations in Global Politics Problems with the state-centric approach Transnational companies in world politics Non-legitimate groups and liberation movements as political actors on international scene Non-governmental organizations in world politics International organizations as structures of global politics Issues and policy systems in global politics

2. Problems with the state-centric approach The notions of the ‘state’: the state as a legal person, a political community and a government The differences between states in terms of economic resources, population and system of government The problem of holism The difference between state and nation

3. Transnational companies in world politics Transnational companies and transnational political actors Transnational companies and the weakened state sovereignty; Mechanisms of influence: - Unpredictable financial flows- impaired state control over the currency and foreign trade - Trade triangulation - Regulatory arbitrage - Extraterritoriality: clashes of sovereignty From domestic deregulation to global re-regulation

4. Non-legitimate groups and liberation movements as political actors on international scene Transnational criminals and their political impact; sovereignty problems in tackling criminals: unpredictable financial flows; triangulation of criminal trade; regulatory arbitrage; and extraterritoriality with respect to jurisdiction over criminal behaviour Transnational guerilla groups: distinction between terrorists, guerilla and national liberation movements; ways to attain legitimacy by groups using violence Criminals and guerillas in global politics

5. Non-governmental organizations in world politics Definitions and distinction between non- governmental groups, on one hand and companies, criminals and guerillas on the other Conditions for gaining recognition as NGOs by the UN: an NGO should support the aims and the work of the UN; an NGO should be a representative body; an NGO cannot be a profit-making body; an NGO cannot use or advocate violence; an NGO cannot be a political party; is not established by an intergovernmental agreement The effects of globalization on the expansion of NGOs: international regimes, communications; global media The movements of the NGOs from the local to the global

6. International organizations as structures of global politics International organizations as systems: systems that constrain the behaviour of its members Distinction of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations Relationship between international organisations

7. Issues and policy systems in global politics The distinction between high politics and low politics; criteria: policy questions; decision- makers; involvement of non-state actors; type of situation; the relevance of the distinction The definition of issue in world politics The definition of policy domain in world politics