Cooley, A, J Heathershaw, and R Soares De Oliveira. 2023. “Transnational Uncivil Society Networks: Kleptocracy’s Global Fightback against Liberal Activism.” European Journal of International Relations.
Abstract
What is the global social context for the insertion of kleptocratic elites into the putatively liberal international order? Drawing on cases from our work on Eurasia and Africa, we sketch a concept of ‘transnational uncivil society’ which we contrast to ‘transnational activist networks’ (Keck and Sikkink, 1998). While the latter denotes the liberalising practices of global civil society, the former suggests a specific series of clientelistic relations across borders which open space for unciv…
