Non-state Actor
Non-state actors (NSA) are entities that (i) participate or act in international relations; organizations with sufficient power to influence and cause politics change that do not belong to an established institution of a state.
The admission of non-state actors into international relations theory rebukes the assumptions of realism and other black box theories of international relations, which argue that interactions between states are the main relationships of interest in studying international events.
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