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The entanglement of state and non-state activity is a distinctive feature of global governance that is often underestimated. Traditional international relations theory dismissed the importance of non-state actors and treated states as not only the most important actors but also as relatively bounded and autonomous institutions, whether these boundaries were conceptualized as territorial borders or the edges of the state bureaucracy. While state-centric theories exhibiting some of these features of traditional international relations theory continue to be prominent there is widespread recognition that this traditional approach is inadequate and that non-state actors play important roles in global governance. However, even among those who focus on these roles the complexity of the entanglement of these with states and other public sector institutions often is not adequately acknowledged or explored. This chapter seeks to show that foregrounding this changing entanglement is necessary if we are to understand global governance. The chapter starts by briefly considering approaches that do not address this entanglement adequately. It then turns to focus on this entanglement theoretically, with empirical illustrations of its main points.
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Porter, T. (2009). Global Governance as Configurations of State/Non-State Activity. In: Whitman, J. (eds) Palgrave Advances in Global Governance. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245310_5
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