The government remains the biggest and most dominant actor in development, but its efforts have had a limited effect on alleviating rural poverty.

Despite this division of labor, the armed forces were the dominant actors in the MECB, at least through 1993.

The 1970s, however, produced a third approach: Transnationalism, which claimed that the state was no longer the dominant actor it had once been.

Not surprisingly, a counter-attack has come from those who believe that the state is still the dominant actor in international relations.

The United States may have been the dominant actor, but the United Nations was a featured player.

Nutida Musik later became a member of Kontaktnätet, where it was a dominant actor.

The rationale is that a hegemon, being the dominant actor in international politics and economics, often stands to gain the most from the creation of global standards.

We can assume with Grievink (2003) that in a few years there will be only 5 dominant actors in the globalised food chain.

By 1990 five firms had emerged as the dominant actors in fresh fruits and vegetables in western Europe and North America.

Network governance theory suggests that partnerships should be equal, but inequalities of power within networks can result in hierarchical relationships determined by more dominant actors.