Mapping Non-State Actors in International Relations

Marianna Charountaki is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Lincoln (UK). She is a Trustee of BRISMES and convenor of BISA Foreign Policy Working Group. Her research lies at the intersection of International Relations theories, foreign policy analysis, and area studies with an emphasis on the Middle Eastern region. She has written extensively on non-state actors through the Kurdish case as well as on the state-non-state interactions in international relations.Daniela Irrera is Professor of International Relations and Global Civil Society at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania (Italy), and Visiting Professor of Political Violence and Terrorism at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. She is member of the ECPR Executive Committee. Her research is focused on non-state actors’ influence on global politics, both positive (civil society movements and NGOs) and negative (organized crime groups and terrorists).

• Chapter 1 - Conceptualising Non-State actors in International Relations.- Chapter 2 The power of institutions in IR: From intergovernmental to non-governmental organizations.- Chapter 3 - Irregular Militaries and Militias in International Relations Theory: The Case of Iraqi Shiite militias.- Chapter 4 - Dilemmas of fundamentalist non-state actors in international relations.- Chapter 5 - The impact of ethnic groups on International Relations.- Chapter 6 - States-to-Be as Foreign Policy Actors.- Chapter 7 - Conclusion. Understanding the role of non-state actors in a mutable global system.