ABSTRACT
As Verdun notes in this volume, IR and IPE theories are crucial to our understanding of international economic cooperation and the EU integration process itself. Yet the scope of non-state actors in these IR/IPE theories and approaches remains somewhat marginalized or, more precisely, ‘ghetto-ized’. There is a tendency to narrow non-state actors’ functions by limiting their activity to a single level of governance, by confining certain roles to the realm of traditional state and institutional actors, by pre-assigning normative labels to them, and/or by restricting our analysis to certain kinds of policy analysis.
