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How Authoritarians Use International Law
Abstract
Two great trends of our time are legalization and autocratization. Both these trends are now extending to the level of international governance. As authoritarian regimes wield more power on the international plane, they are turning to international law as a means of shielding themselves from criticism and actively promoting their own illiberal projects. Their strategies include repurposing multilateral institutions, creating new norms, and seeking to assert jurisdiction over their critics abroad. The development of authoritarian international law requires a creative response from democracies that has not yet been forthcoming.
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“Authoritarian states learn to exploit contextual changes in technology, the international legal environment, and foreign relations to pursue their objectives and mitigate challenges and vulnerabilities introduced by globalization (Frantz, Kendall-Taylor, and Wright 2020a; Ginsburg 2020).”
From The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression (2024) · cites this paper as Ginsburg 2020
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The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression
Dukalskis, A., Furstenberg, S., Hellmeier, S., & Scales, R. (2024) · Journal of Conflict Resolution · doi:10.1177/00220027231188896 · Cited by 31
“Authoritarian states learn to exploit contextual changes in technology, the international legal environment, and foreign relations to pursue their objectives and mitigate challenges and vulnerabilities introduced by globalization (Frantz, Kendall-Taylor, and Wright 2020a; Ginsburg 2020).”
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- Authors
- Ginsburg, T.
- Corresponding author
- Ginsburg, Tom
- ORCID
- Ginsburg, Tom
- Venue
- Journal of Democracy
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 44-58
- ISSN
- 1045-5736 (ISSN-L)
- 1086-3214
- OpenAlex
- W3091923823
- Cited by
- 39
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 9.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of democracy (publishedVersion)
- eYLS (Yale Law School) (submittedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Law and Human Rights
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Keywords
- authoritarianism, international law, autocratization, legalization, illiberalism, multilateral institutions, international norms, extraterritorial jurisdiction, democracy, international governance
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