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    This document discusses non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their role in international relations. It provides background information on NGOs, including that there are over 6,000 transnational NGOs today that focus on issues like the environment, human rights, and development/aid. The document outlines four central strategies NGOs use to influence state behavior: symbolic politics, information/framing, symbolism, and leverage. It also discusses the "boomerang effect," where NGOs use indirect influence by appealing to intermediate states to pressure target states. The role of Hollywood celebrities like Mia Farrow and Steven Spielberg in pressuring Sudan to change its position is noted.

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    Conflict in Sudan

    EGYPT

    PLIR 101

    International Relations

    CHAD
    Khartoum

    UR
    RF
    A
    D

    Prof. Todd S. Sechser


    December 1, 2008

    ETHIOPIA
    CENTRAL
    AFRICAN
    REPUBLIC
    DEM. REP. OF CONGO

    Why did Sudan change its position?

    NGOs are a major part


    of international life.

    Credit goes to Hollywood Mia Farrow and


    Steven Spielberg in particular.
    New York Times, April 13, 2007

    Numbers of:
    States:
    IGOs:
    NGOs:

    193

    325

    > 6,000 (transnational)

    Sudanese president
    Omar al-Bashir

    Three broad classes of


    advocacy NGOs
    1.Environmental

    2.Human rights

    3.Development & aid

    NGOs try to influence states behavior.

    How? By targeting
    citizens
    business leaders
    politicians and bureaucrats

    Keck and Sikkink identify four


    central strategies of NGOs.
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.

    Symbolic politics

    Information/framing
    Symbolism
    Accountability
    Leverage

    Greenpeaces Rainbow Warrior

    Keck and Sikkink identify four


    central strategies of NGOs.
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.

    Information/framing
    Symbolism
    Accountability
    Leverage

    The boomerang effect

    NGO

    Publicity

    Favorable conditions
    for NGO influence

    Target
    state

    Intermediate
    state

    Indirect influence

    1. Issues can be cast as clear


    cases of right and wrong

    Sudan

    NGO activists

    2. Actors are susceptible to


    moral suasion
    6
    Publicity & linkage

    China

    The NGO strategy for pressuring


    China

    A boomerang effect

    Its time now to begin shaming


    China: demanding that if the Beijing
    government is going to host the
    Summer Olympic Games of 2008,
    they must be responsible partners.
    Reeves

    We are amazed by Beijings


    reaction. It shows that one thing is
    more important to the Chinese than
    their access to Sudans oil, and that's
    the success of their Olympic
    Games.
    Farrow

    Can NGOs solve long-term problems?

    Response paper topics


    1. Can we measure the impact of NGOs?

    NGOs claim to campaign on behalf


    of poor people, yet many of their
    campaigns harm the poor.

    2. Do NGOs simply reflect social views?


    3. Do they focus on easy problems?

    Mallaby

    Concluding observations about NGOs

    1. NGOs may challenge the


    notion of state sovereignty.

    4. Can you think of other international problems


    that NGOs are well-suited to help solve?

    For Wednesday

    1. Bring your laptops!


    2. Final exam: details and review sheet

    2. NGO operations suggest that


    preferences are inconstant.

    3. Review session time/date

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