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Niskakari, Riikka. "Studying Non-State Agency and Global Civil Society: Theoretical ventures in non-state International Relations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p181520_index.html>

Niskakari, R. K. , 2007-02-28 "Studying Non-State Agency and Global Civil Society: Theoretical ventures in non-state International Relations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online <PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p181520_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Is there an inescapable conflict between state interests and ?global obligations?? How does IR, with its encompassing state privilege, adapt itself to the situation where non-state agency is more and more salient? The global civil society may not be as fundamental as concluded in the most idealistic chapters of IR, but there is more about it than just the political activities of NGOs and transnationally spreading cultural similarities. The argument ad nauseam that international relations ethics is an oxymoron may turn out to be false, as the humanitarian turn in the present-day international politics is obviously taking place. After the successful removal of the explicit statist elements in the vocabulary and procedures of IR, the next step would include a deeper and more analytical focus on those structures that are likely to contain the strongest conditions for the international relations to be so unequivocally state-dominated.The paper deals with security from a non-state and transnational standpoint. The perspective is influenced on the one hand by the emergence of non-state agency and more generally the global civil society, and on the other the distinctive alteration of meta-theorizing of IR from rational/materialist perspectives to ones of more societal nature. The train of thought to be analytically constructed starts with the notion of the apparent humanitarian turn in international politics, parallel to the ?traditional? views of interest-led power politics. Do the humanitarian turn in itself and the global norms endorsing it contain the ingredients for an ethical foreign policy, and moreover, is there a slightest possibility of the construction of an ethical state? Furthermore, how does the global civil society contribute to the construction of global norms, and how does this affect state and inter-state policies? The sphere of international politics of states and the transnational activities of non-state actors are seen as constituting one another, whereby the global picture of parallel, intersecting and remote elements of both the international society and the world society becomes into view.In addition, the paper claims that studying non-state actors is often underrated in IR, despite of the fact that the subject attracts more and more scholars and is also empirically tempting. The underestimation is natural and partly justifiable on the grounds that the main object of IR is ? and always will be ? the state, but another explanation is also obvious: when focusing on actors and phenomena ?not-as-significant-as-states?, one has to argue much more strongly and prove the relevance of the study more thoroughly than if the object was simply state-centric. The paper aims at highlighting some points, which may improve the value of non-state research.

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