Suparna Chaudry, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark, and alumni of the Rosenwald Postdoc program at the Davidson Institute, is out with a new book thru Cornell University Press.
Civil Societies, Uncivil States examines why governments around the world have turned against the nongovernmental organizations they once welcomed—and how they choose their methods of repression. Chaudry documents the rise in non-violent or administrative or bureaucratic forms of crackdown against NGOs, which allow states to maintain democratic facades while systematically dismantling infrastructures of accountability. The book reveals that, paradoxically, the very successes of transnational advocacy networks in pressuring governments to reform and improve their human rights records incentivized more sophisticated tools of repression.
Find her book here.
