The influence of international non-governmental organisations on states’ foreign policy: case studies of greenpeace international, amnesty international and human rights watch

It is undeniable that Non-governmental Organizations operating at the international level constitute an undisputable stance in world affairs and a number of studies were made in this respect. This paper takes a similar course with different dimension by dwelling its analysis on some general and specific cases where NGOs shapes and determines the activities of states especially in their interaction with other states. The general cases involve a discourse on the growing significance, background and proliferation of NGOs in today's world given in the introductory part of the paper and in some part of literature review. The specific cases explore the activities of the said NGOs which the paper focuses on. The paper employs a qualitative study and examined materials from secondary sources to make and enrich the findings. It is revealed that NGOs and states have a direct and indirect relationship and each shapes the activities of the other, but for the fact that states are superior actors than NGOs, academic studies focus much on the influence of the later on the former.