But compared with other global actors, we are not that significant in the Vietnamese scheme of things.
By contrast, the columnist Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger wrote in The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, their postimperial successors "are not global actors with strategic heft.
Nonetheless, these organizations aside, many of the interactions and agreements between states and other global actors are situated in the context of the transnational policy networks associated with the new regionalism.
"Which Turkey is more valuable in the eyes of regional and global actors, including Hamas, in achieving an immediate cease-fire with the Israeli operation on Gaza in its sixth day?" Kadri Gursel, a columnist for the Turkish daily newspaper Milliyet, wrote on Monday.
It reflects every major fault line that has defined the Middle East for the past half-century and has drawn in local, regional and global actors, many of whom see this as an existential fight that they cannot afford to lose.
The collective and bizarrely misplaced freakout in the US press over a Xinhua editorial that called on global actors to start considering the creation of a "de-Americanized world" notwithstanding, China almost certainly wants a stable United States and, in particular, a version that isn't playing chicken with the global economy.
This paper discusses the role of China and India as important global actors in light of development imperatives in the two countries.
It may have been the US's first global foundation, but today the world in which it operates is very different, as there are many more global actors - both other philanthropic organisations and governments.
Our findings reveal a high/unbalanced narrative pressure coming from global actors by means of both institutional and informal channels, and from national actors mainly by means of informal channels.
