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This is the view that whatever problems exist in globalization are already being addressed not only by major players like the UN, IGOs (e.g. the IMF), nation-states, and MNCs, but also by a variety of INGOs that seem to be growing in importance and power in a global world. It is hard to take the actions of the UN, IGOs, nation-states, and MNCs too seriously in this context because they have such vested interests in globalization that they are only likely to undertake and support changes on the margins of the process. Throughout the 2010s, widespread uprisings in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria, and elsewhere sought to shape their countries in reaction to impending global forces and unpopular regimes. There are also social movements and INGOs that are trying to address problematic aspects of globalization (e.g. BRAC, Greenpeace, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Sierra Club, Slow Food). However, while such INGOs are important, they often pale in comparison to the strength of nation-states and MNCs that oppose them, to say nothing of such IGOs as the World Bank, the IMF, and so on, that are devoted to the continuation, if not expansion, of globalization.