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Confronting Globalization: critical reactions from the bottom

Confronting Globalization: critical reactions from the bottom. New transnational actors. Transnational actors: challenges to states?. About 200 states about 40,000 Transnational companies + hundreds of thousand affiliated companies 15 000 registered one-land based NGOs

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Confronting Globalization: critical reactions from the bottom

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  1. Confronting Globalization: critical reactions from the bottom New transnational actors

  2. Transnational actors: challenges to states? • About 200 states • about 40,000 Transnational companies + hundreds of thousand affiliated companies • 15 000 registered one-land based NGOs • 300 IGOs: UN, NATO, EU, IMF, etc. • 5000 INGOs Amnesty International, International Red Cross, Green Peace, etc

  3. Transnational actors (2) • Also: non-legitime actors: guerilla movements, criminal networks • new protest movements-sometimes organized-sometimes spontaneous--> the new phenomenom

  4. TNC as transnational actors • Their influence-->over the whole world • they take over state functions: control of the financial markets, control of foreign trade • Trade: intra-companies: 1/3 of all trade in goods and 1/2 of all trade in high technological industries • extreme mobility: looking for cheap labour, for tax-paradises • breaking government policies-ex boycotts • financial transactions without rules

  5. NGOs and movements as transnational actors • Focusing concrete issues • building of transnational advocacy networks • working through and against states and INGOs • grassroot level combined with high level negotiations • parallel forums to confront summits

  6. New transnational actors: what do they have in common? • Independence from states (classical international actors) • not subject to international norms • aiming for profits, aiming for changes • flexibility of tactics • sometimes more powerful than the states

  7. Globalisation on whose terms? New transnational protests • Heterogeneity • issues:transnational capital/market power, neoliberal-end of welfare problems, free trade’s consequences and terms, agriculture issues, environment, gender, poverty, native people’s issues…. • Strategies-tactics: TNAs, forums, boycotts, demonstrations

  8. Trade unions as new transnational actors? • Trade unions from the North and the South- how to find common strategies? • The case of NAFTA-contacts that begin with free-trade • women’s trade unions transnational contacts-solidarity and conflicts • NGOs and trade unions: the case of CJM • trade unions against FTAA within HSA

  9. Globalisation: actors, confrontations, possibilities • States and regional actors • TNC and global financial capital • IGOs • INGOs • actors from below-civil society • confrontations or compromises-A new international order? New discourses?

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