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What is an international actor?
The question was considered as trivial when
the states were the only actors of the international system.
But we are now in a new world in which states are no more the unique actors and
even probably are not the dominant actors.
We have to take into account non-state actors.
The question could be, what is an actor?
An actor is one acting on the international system.
But also an actor is expected to act on the international arena.
We have to take into account what is expected on the international arena?
Now, Many kinds of actors are expected on the international arena,
I mean of course, multinational cooperation but
also entails, but also translational medias and
also all the individuals who are constituting the world by now,
that's to say about 7 billion people around the world.
All of us we are international actors.
Because we are consuming, because we are watching international TVs,
because we are travelling, because we are surfing the internet and so on.
So we have to understand what is at stake
when we are acting as international actor on the arena.
We are probably creating several billions
of interactions on the international arena.
And in social science it's very difficult to analyse and
to understand all these new kinds of action,
which are not promoted by states but by individuals.
That's why was this new kinds of factors,
we have to take into account four levels of analysis.
The first one would be an international civil society
which is more and more taking place, that's to say,
all these exchanges which are initiated both by actors,
but also by organized actors, but organized non state actors.
The second would be an international public space.
If I take the word which has been coined by Jürgen Habermas,
the famous German philosopher.
That's to say more and more, there is a kind of international debate
which takes place with an emerging international public opinion,
with an emerging debate which is
gathering all the kinds of actors playing in the international arena.
