Paper 1 Global Politics

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According to source B, NGO’s have several advantages over other actors in global
politics. Firstly, the source argues that Ngo’s are “highly skilled at mobilizing soft
power”. Also, they have high public profiles and attract media attention. Lastly, they
have the ability to use public support and moral pressure to their advantage.
2. Large NGO’s have many common features, as suggested from source C. As we can
observe in column 2 large NGO’s have as their focus developmental challenges and
important social issues our time, such as poverty and disaster relief. Their focuses
are also considered areas were the governments and IGO’s have been unable to deal
with effectively, for example fighting the climate crisis. As indicated by their reach,
NGO’s have large platforms and public support on which they rely on, like the red
cross who has over 97 million volunteers worldwide. Lastly, NGO’s apart from public
reach, require a lot of funding in order to act effectively.
3. In source A and source B two contrasting views on NGOs are considered. The main
points of clash amongst the two sources are whether there should be a rise of NGOs
and cooperation between them and the government, whether they are a central
actor, if they operate under a code of ethics and if they tend to opt to violence or are
means of cooperation. Source A is presenting a situation where the legitimacy and
sovereignty of an NGO are overwritten by Singapore’s government, since they
banned their activists from the world bank. Source D that argues in favor of the rise
of NGOs in a multi polar world system, where there is cooperation between state
and non-state actors.
Another contrasting view can be dedusted from source A referring to NGO’s as

“having a central role in promoting good governance and accountability”. On the
other side, the Singapore government, as portrait in source A, views NGOs as
destabilizing factors and not peaceful protesters, which shows that they don’t
[antilambanomai} them as a powerful actor in global politics.
Furthermore, source D directly addresses and supports the belief that NGOs operate
under a code of ethics, where Indonesia made the assumption that the peaceful
demonstration would lead to use of violent, in each case the sources support a
radically opposing views, with the code of ethics under which NGOs operates being
questioned, or even ignored by the Indonesian government but in source D there is
emphasis on the code of ethics. Based. On the above points of clash, one could argue
that source A presents a situation where realism [yperterei], where source A adopts
liberalist beliefs.
4. The main topic of discussion in the above sources is the rise of NGOs, with all the
sources presenting the impact and benefits of NGOs. In source A, initially NGOs are
presented as discarded from a governmental standpoint. With Singapore and
Indonesia both opposing the protest, it could be considered a demonstration of
power over the organizations. But their importance is highlighted by the statement
of the president of the world bank, who believes that even if there is a
disagreement, we should engage with strong dialog. Also, the fact that the states
refuse the protest could be view as a sign of fear for the rising actors. Source B
presents the advantages that NGOs have over traditional states which supports the
statement dedusted from source A. additionally, source B highlights the publicity and
soft power skills possessed which makes them a popular approach regarding
humanitarian issues. In source C, we are remined once again about the strong public
outreach. That NGOs have along with their exponential expenditure, which in my
opinion are very strong indicators that NGOs are significant actors. Lastly, source D
presents the benefits of states and NGOs as well as how they can benefit developing
states, which in turn advocates their importance and significance as global actors.
Based on my opinion the fact that NGOs are insignificant is false because they are
undeniably an increasingly powerful actor in the political stage. An important point
for their rise is that they are often used as a moral compass from large IGOs like the
UN which gives them recognition as sovereign. Also as indicated by the sources
NGOs act as a unifying actor since they gather audiences from the hole globe, which
is a power that traditional actors are incapable of. Another area of importance is the
fact that they bring attention and deal with issues that governments are unsuccessful
at. For the aforementioned reasons I believe that NGOs are far from a non-negligible
actor

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Another contrasting view can be dedusted from source A referring to NGO’s as

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