Has there been a power shift from states to non-governmental organizations in world politics?

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: 1.8, , language: English, abstract: The essay analyzes if there has been a power shift from states to non-governmental organizations in world politics and critically analyzes the following two standpoints: some scholars (Lipschutz, 1992; Mathews, 1997; Keck & Sikkink, 1998; Rosenau, 2002) see the emergenc...