Transnational actors

Abstract

The modern era of global environmental politics coincided with contemporary scholarship on transnational actors. It surveys the role of these actors. The chapter considers three types of transnational actors – for-profit, non-profit and individual actors – and the role they have played in environmental politics. It explores some reflections on how we are to understand the role of transnational actors in environmental politics and world politics more generally. In the international sphere, especially in the world of environmental politics, the growth in the number of transnational actors since the end of the Cold War has led to a burgeoning literature on their role and impact. Transnational actors are now central players in world politics. Over the last 50 years, for-profit actors, various civil society groups and individuals have all helped shape the modern era of global environmental politics.