About the Book
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. Moreover, resistance to autocratization has yielded results, if not managing to prevent attempted coups, like in Brazil and the United States, at least in disturbing the path of autocratizers and leaving doors open for future reversal, as in India, Israel and South Africa. This 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, South Africa, and the United States, as well as cross-cutting themes on international human rights institutions, sanctions, the political economy of autocratization, and the role of lawyers from a 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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Natasha Lindstaedt, Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Oscar Vilhena Vieira, David M Trubek, Fábio de Sá 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 Here—Resistance 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, Gábor Halmai and Bojan Bugarič; 9. Personalization of Power and Sources of Resistance in Russia, Natasha Lindstaedt; 10. Defenders but not Resisters: The Role of Lawyers in Putin’s Russia, Kathryn Hendley; 11. Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion: The People’s Republic of China, Leigha C Crout; 12. International Human Rights Institutions and Resistance to Autocratization: Mapping their Actions, Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz and Nina M Hart; 13. Economic Sanctions, Autocratization and Human Security, Bojan Bugarič, 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.
About the Author :
Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz is a Professor of Law, King’s College of London, UK.
Natasha Lindstaedt is a Professor of Government, University of Essex, UK.
David M. 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 São Paulo, Brazil.
Oscar Vilhena Vieira is a founding professor and director of the São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV São Paulo Law School), Brazil.
