abstract:Non-state actors (NSA) are entities that participate or act in international relations; They are organizations with sufficient power to influence and cause a change even though they do not belong to any established institution of a state.
However, as Dina Esfandiary, a proliferation expert at the IISS in London, argues, Hizbullah, which increasingly wants to be seen as a state actor rather than a non-state one, would have little interest in acquiring them.