"This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in autocratizing countries, autocratization does not march on unopposed. Moreoever, resistance to autocratization has yielded results, if not managing to prevent attempted coups, like in Brazil and the US, at least disturbing the path of autocratizers and leaving doors open for future reversal, as in India, Israel and South Africa. The collection offers a contribution to this important yet neglected field from scholars of eight countries in different stages of autocratization: Brazil, India, China, Russia, Israel,Hungary and South Africa, as well as cross-cutting themes on international human rights institutions, sanctions, the political economy of autocratization and the role of lawyers in comparative perspective. The authors include senior and rising scholars not only with academic interest and experience of the topic but also deep knowledge and intense involvement in the autocratization processes, and resistance, in their own countries. The volume will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy-makersworking in the areas of Law, Political Science and International Relations"--
This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in autocratizing countries, autocratization does not march on unopposed. Moreoever, resistance to autocratization has yielded results, if not managing to prevent attempted coups, like in Brazil and the US, at least disturbing the path of autocratizers and leaving doors open for future reversal, as in India, Israel and South Africa. The collection offers a contribution to this important yet neglected field from scholars of eight countries in different stages of autocratization: Brazil, India, China, Russia, Israel, Hungary and South Africa, as well as cross-cutting themes on international human rights institutions, sanctions, the political economy of autocratization and the role of lawyers in comparative perspective. The authors include senior and rising scholars not only with academic interest and experience of the topic but also deep knowledge and intense involvement in the autocratization processes, and resistance, in their own countries. The volume will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of Law, Political Science and International Relations.
The collection offers a contribution to resistance to autocratization from scholars of eight countries in different stages of autocratization, as well as cross-cutting themes on international human rights institutions, sanctions, the political economy of autocratization and the role of lawyers in comparative perspective.
Introduction, Natasha Lindstaedt, Octįvio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Oscar
Vilhena Vieira, David M Trubek, Fįbio de Sį e Silva;
1. Law as Resilience and
Law as Roadblocks: Protest Politics and Resistance in India, Moshin Alam Bhat
and Aparna Chandra;
2. It Can Happen HereResistance to Autocracy under Trump
and Trumpism, Richard L Abel;
3. A Group of
Professors-Turned-Political-Activists: Legal Resistance to Regime Changes in
Israel 2023, Ronit Levine-Schnur;
4. Lawyers, Bankers and Picketers:
Pro-democracy Coalition-building in Brazil, Raquel de Mattos Pimenta, Débora
Alves Maciel, Sofia Bordin Rolim, and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado;
5.
Defensive Democracy: The Role of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal
(2019-2023), Oscar Vilhena Vieira;
6. Judicial Resistance to Autocracy: South
African Case Study, Nurina Ally, Heinz Klug, and Nomfundo Ramalekana;
7.
Repertoires of Resistance, Heinz Klug;
8. Resisting Autocratization: The Case
of Hungary, Gįbor Halmai and Bojan Bugari;
9. Personalization of Power and
Sources of Resistance in Russia, Natasha Lindstaedt;
10. Defenders but not
Resisters: The Role of Lawyers in Putins Russia, Kathryn Hendley;
11. Global
Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion: The Peoples Republic of China, Leigha
C Crout;
12. International Human Rights Institutions and Resistance to
Autocratization: Mapping their Actions, Octįvio Luiz Motta Ferraz and Nina M
Hart;
13. Economic Sanctions, Autocratization and Human Security, Bojan
Bugari, Natasha Lindstaedt, and David M Trubek;
14. Global Resistance to
Authoritarian Diffusion: Lawyers in Resistance, Leigha C Crout, David M
Trubek, and Sofia Bordin Rolim.
Octįvio Luiz Motta Ferraz, is a Professor of Law, Kings College of London, UK. Natasha Lindstaedt, is a Professor of Government, University of Essex, UK. David Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Senior Global Fellow at FGV Direito SP, the FGV Law School in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Oscar Vilhena Vieira is a founding professor and director of the Sćo Paulo Law School of Fundaēćo Getulio Vargas (FGV Sao Paulo Law School), Brazil
