The Basics

System Actors

• States=countries
• International Organizations
  • Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
  • Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
    • International NGOs
    • Regional NGOs
    • National NGOs
    • Local NGOs=grassroots groups
• Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
• Nations
• Religious groups
• Terrorist networks
• Leaders, prominent individuals

Transnational issues-any issues that transcend state political borders

Zero-sum v. Positive sum outcomes

Global North-Global South Economic Divide

• Global North
• Global South

  • Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs) and Emerging markets

  • Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs)

  • Countries in Transition (CITs)

    • Central and Eastern European former East bloc Soviet satellite countries and former Soviet republics (FSRs)

    • 3 = GN (Czech Rep., Slovakia, Slovenia), 3 = Emerging (Poland, Hungary, Russia), rest = GS

   

  Global North	Global South
  Industrialized	NICs* more industrialized, most agrarian
  Donors of foreign assistance	Rely on foreign assistance
  Well-developed physical infrastructure	Poorly developed physical infrastructure
  Exporters of technology	Exporters of primary resources
  Cutting edge of technology	Importers of technology
  Technology to extract resources	Rely on GN to extract, refine resources
  Well-developed service infrastructure	Poorly developed service infrastructure