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social science subjects > politics and international relations > international relations > foreign policy > nonstate actors
social science subjects > sociology > political sociology > nonstate actors
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nonstate actors  

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  • The phrase nonstate actors arose in the study of world politics during the 1970s in the context of a transnationalist critique of the then prevailing realist orthodoxy. Realist theory of international relations holds that only states are and can be actors in politics beyond the national realm. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Nonstate Actors]

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