TY  - JOUR
A1  - Terhalle, Maximilian
T1  - Transnational Actors and Great Powers during Order Transition
JF  - International studies perspectives
N2  - This article rests on the assumption of the “complexity, messiness, power relations, and contested character of the contemporary dualistic system,” which comprises great powers and “superimposed, functionally differentiated global subsystems of world society” (Cohen 2012:5). The article argues that this framework is being shaped by the current transition of global order. In turn, this raises the question how the state-led negotiation of today's order transition can be understood against the backdrop of a post-Westphalian environment. The article challenges the widespread argument pertaining to the “autonomy of transnational actors” by suggesting that the influence of nonstate actors is dependent on a particular institutional context in which the key political questions framing a social order are settled. Whereas research on international institutions and their design simply assumes that this is the case, here it is argued that unless these framing patterns are agreed upon by major powers, the respective order and its elements, that is, institutions and regimes, remain contested or deadlocked. When this happens, the political impact of non-state actors is largely neutralized or strongly weakened and their effective autonomy from great powers is minimized.
KW  - transnational actors
KW  - great powers
KW  - order transition
KW  - unqual power
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/insp.12077
SN  - 1528-3577
SN  - 1528-3585
VL  - 17
SP  - 287
EP  - 306
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -