IS 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Global Environmental Politics, Epistemic Community, Transnationalism
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Includes government and social movements that: act along with states or to criticize states, use a wide range of tactics and strategies to achieve their goals, an increase of international activism since the 1980s. Relative decline in the power autonomy is one reason why there is an explosion: ease of communication to organize events across large distances (due to the growth of new technologies) 2 broad views of development increased importance of these activities. Liberlal theory: positive theory of rise of activism. Activity of non-government groups in affairs is seen as a positive thing to democratize the process and allow different voices. Ngos" involvement from grassroots to perpectuate up positive for various reasons (keep states and governments accountable to groups of people) Critics of the positive environmental activism worry that liberal ideas accept face value sees government as losing power. Critics disagree that the power of states and govrenments have not declined.