Non-State Actors in World Politics

CHRISTOPHER COKER Reader in International Relations, London School of Economics WILLIAM D. COLEMAN Professor of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario ARIEL COLONOMOS Research Fellow, CNRS (CERI) Paris and Lecturer, Institut d'Aetudes Politiques KATERINA DALACOURA Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics MARK GALEOTTI Director of Organized Russian and Eurasian Crime Research Unit, Keele University FRED HALLIDAY Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics EVA A STERGAARD-NIELSEN Visiting Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics IAN H. ROWLANDS Associate Professor, Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario DAVID RYALL Senior Research Associate, Von Hugel Institute, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge JULIE SMITH Head of the European Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Centre of International Studies, Cambridge DIANE STONE Reader in Political and International Studies, Warwick University ANDREW WALTER Senior Lecturer, International Relations, London School of Economics

The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterised as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role.The involvement of non-state actors in world politics can hardly be characterised as novel, but intensifying economic and social exchange and the emergence of new modes of international governance have given them much greater visibility and, many would argue, a more central role. Non-state Actors in World Politics offers analyses of a diverse range of economic, social, legal (and illegal), old and new actors, such as the Catholic Church, trade unions, diasporas, religious movements, transnational corporations and organised crime.