ABSTRACT
This chapter links up the controller and controlled sides of two separate states to give an idea of how state and nonstate actors interact in the international system. Each zone will be examined to highlight the kinds of public-private partnerships that play an increasingly significant role in international affairs, including security and defence. These nonstate actors include tourists, businesses, and citizens, private schools, universities, and their foreign students, banks, investment firms, and charitable organizations, religious institutions, their congregations, and worshippers, non-governmental organizations, consulting firms, transnational corporations, and private military companies, travel and transport companies, hydroelectric and nuclear plants, agricultural enterprises, computer industries, Internet service providers, social media platforms, and private security companies. Such a panoply of players clearly shows how security has become the province of many more actors than just the state or the politicians who comprise government.
