Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-202
Author(s):  
Christine Leuenberger ◽  
Izhak Schnell
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
State Building ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The West ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Future State ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
West Bank And Gaza

The story of the establishment of the Israeli nation-state exemplifies some of the main ingredients of nation-state building in the 20th century. Israel came into being where historical narratives, national imaginations, scientific and technical know-how, human and material resources, and national and international support intersected. In the struggle to establish a nation-state, cartography had become crucial for both building the nation, and for building the state. With the 1993 Oslo Interim Agreement, Palestinians also started to survey and map the territory allocated to a future State of Palestine, with the expectation that they would, within five years, have full sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza. For Palestinians to survey, map, and plan for the territory is crucial for establishing the legitimacy and functionality of a future state. At the same time, their attempt to map their land, as well as the production of various alternative maps by various organizations, are challenging the top-down mappings of the Israeli state and its dominant geopolitics. As boundaries continue to be controversial and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains intractable and unresolved, Israel and Palestine provide different governmental and non-governmental organizations, interest groups, and political protagonists ongoing fodder for persistent map wars. The focus on nationally based cartographic discourses in Israel/Palestine thus provides insights into the complexity, fissures, and frictions within internal political debates, but it also reveals the persistent power of the nation-state as a framework for forging identities, citizens, and alliances.

Non-Governmental Organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bloodgood
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
International Ngos

Research on non-governmental organizations (NGOs, often international NGOs, or INGOs) has advanced over the last several decades from demonstrating that NGOs matter in shaping economic development and foreign aid to examining the potential for NGOs to advocate for new rights, set standards for environmental protections, and establish alternative economic arrangements in international relations. The study of NGOs as organizations has opened their potential as interest groups as well as economic actors in their own rights. Moving forward, new data and new theory is needed to fully develop International Political Economy (IPE) understandings of NGO motives, intentions, strategies, and power in global governance.

scholarly journals Nevyriausybinių organizacijų ir savivaldybių sąveika Lietuvoje: teoriniai sprendimų priėmimo ir įgyvendinimo proceso aspektai

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Aušra Šilinskytė
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

The paper is focused on the discussion about the role of non-governmental organizations during the decision-making process in local governance and what factors influence it. To achieve this, the following steps have been made: first, the concept of non-governmental organizations and their relationship with civil society was analyzed, then possible variations of relationship between non-governmental organizations and their impact to the public sector was described. In the last part of the paper, the stages of the decision–making and implementation process in the municipality were analyzed and theoretical aspects of enabling NGOs were discussed. The analyses showed that the decision-making and implementation processes depend on the understanding of the need to cooperate, the ability of both subjects to work together, their relationship with citizens and other interest groups.

Two circuits: China defined with globalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Salitsky
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Domestic Markets ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade War ◽  
To Come

China has made achieving technological independence its top priority for years to come. China has turned a "crisis into an opportunity" in its response to the US trade war. China's industrial capabilities have been fully confirmed during the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. The emergence and adoption in China of the concept of “two circuits” (dual-circulation”) means the predominant reliance on the internal circuit compared to the external. The old strategy focused on external markets and external resources helped China to become a "global factory". But times and China have changed: the domestic market of the country has huge potential, and tendencies towards de-globalization have spread abroad. The economic activity of the PRC turned towards the internal market and internal regions of the country. The state came out in defense of the market - against large international monopolists, no matter domestic or foreign. This posture opposes the sluggish economic dynamics in the industrial centers of the West caused by the monopolization of domestic markets by large and super-large transnationals, who overwhelmed governments, other branches of state power, many international and non-governmental organizations by narrowing and exploiting the market space. "Two circuits", as well as "self-reliance" in China, have a pronounced socialist orientation.The escalating US campaign for technological pressure on China is backfiring. The country is committed to further strengthening its growing technological prowess. China has thrown a strong challenge to Western domination, which has more than just an economic dimension. China has an increasing impact on the world and - less dependent on it.

1. Globalization and global politics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony McGrew
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
The West ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
World Power ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
National Economic

This chapter examines the characteristics of contemporary globalization and how they are reshaping world politics. It explains why globalization challenges some of our traditional ways of thinking and theorizing about world politics. It asks whether there are limits to globalization or whether it is inevitable. It also considers the extent to which globalization is responsible for the emerging shift in the structure of world power, namely the ‘decline of the West’ and the ‘rise of the rest’. Two case studies are presented: one is about the iPhone and the iPad, and illustrates the implications of global production networks for national economic sovereignty; the other is about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and highlights the influence of non-governmental organizations and international public opinion in world politics. There is also an Opposing Opinions box that tackles the question of whether globalization is a source of order or disorder in world politics.

NGO Influence in International Organizations: Information, Access and Exchange

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Tallberg ◽  
Lisa M. Dellmuth ◽  
Hans Agné ◽  
Andreas Duit
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Information Access ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Elite Interviews ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Broad Consensus

While there is broad consensus that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) sometimes succeed in influencing policy making within international organizations (IOs), there is much less agreement on the factors that make NGO lobbying effective. This article makes two contributions to this debate. First, the determinants of influence among NGOs active in different IOs, issue areas and policy phases are examined. The analysis builds on original survey data of more than 400 NGOs involved in five different IOs, complemented by elite interviews with IO and state officials. Secondly, the article advances a specific argument about how the strategic exchange of information and access between NGOs and IOs increases NGO influence in IOs. This argument, derived from theories of lobbying in American and European politics, is contrasted with three alternative explanations of NGO influence, privileging material resources, transnational networks and public opinion mobilization, and the broader implications of these results for research on NGOs in global governance are explored.

Israeli state-building in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: theory and practice

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Lustick
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
State Building ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
The West ◽  
Strip Theory ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
The Gaza Strip

The most significant political division within Israel since 1967 has beenbetween those Israelis who favor the permanent incorporation of the portions of Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel) captured in the Six Day War and those Israelis who favor relinquishing most or all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in return for a peace agreement with the Arab world and resolution of the Palestinian problem. Although usually considered an issue of security, ideology, or diplomacy, the uncertain disposition of the West Bank and Gaza Strip can usefully be analyzed as a state-building problem.

scholarly journals YOUTH VECTOR OF EUROPE

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
L.Yu. Zainiyeva ◽  
◽  
А.А. Abzhapparova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

The article emphasizes that the implementation of youth policy depends on many factors, primarily on its implementation at all levels: international, regional and national. This article is devoted to the study of youth policy issues in line with the last two levels. It is based on the materials of the European Union and a number of countries in this region. Issues such as the creation and establishment of pan-European structures are considered. Moreover, this process is analyzed not only at the level of state bodies, but also at the level of non-governmental organizations, especially youth organizations. Special attention is paid to international cooperation in the field of youth policy. A significant part of the article is devoted to materials related to youth work in specific European countries. They summarize the experience in the field of education, employment and other main areas of life of the young generation, and highlight the features of this experience in order to use it by other States. The analysis showed that European countries have accumulated sufficient capacity to work with young people. The achievements of the European Union as a whole are also of interest, especially in the development of integration processes, the unification of organizational, legal and material resources.

Validating Segregated Observers: Mapping West Bank Settlements from Without and Within

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jess Bier
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Standpoint Theory ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
The West ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Map Data ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Israeli Occupation

Chapter 5, “Validating Segregated Observers”, explores the intricate ways that the Israeli occupation shapes empirical observations. Through a critique of feminist standpoint theory and Donna Haraway’s work on situated knowledge, it shows how the most well meaning maps can be drastically different depending on who makes them. After 1967 Israeli settlers have increasingly moved to the West Bank, establishing diffuse but numerous settlements that dominate the landscape, engendering forms of segregation that are both rigid and complex. As a result, Palestinians see different parts of the landscape, and under tougher restrictions, than do Israelis, and vice versa. For example, cartographers in Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are able to collect map data only within Palestinian areas, and must view the Israeli settlements from without. This produces a dichotomy between, and enforces a drastically unequal separation of, Palestinians and Israelis. It also buttresses imbalances of power in international technoscience, influencing even the most apparently objective, empirical knowledge. Chapter 5 explores the (by no means straightforward) implications of this segregation in detail, while also introducing the notion of refractivity, or material and spatial reflexivity. Throughout, it seeks to understand how cartographers in organizations who use the same tools to map the same landscapes can produce different results.

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