Harvard Business Review-Ten Breakthrough Ideas for 2010
January-February 2010 Issue
10: Independent Diplomacy
by Carne Ross
Why pretend that only nation-states shape international affairs?
The Problem.
As globalization puts all of us at the whim of forces without borders, the power of states is in decline, and that of other actors is rising. The UN Security Council was constituted in 1945 to deal with conflict between states. Today more than three-quarters of its agenda involves so-called nonstate actors-guerrilla groups, separatists, the remnants of decaying states, and the kernels of new ones.
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