{"id":4508,"date":"2023-08-25T06:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T06:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-how-the-kleptocrats-and-oligarchs-hunt-civil-society-groups-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-24-august-2023"},"modified":"2023-08-25T06:12:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T06:12:35","slug":"pluralistic-how-the-kleptocrats-and-oligarchs-hunt-civil-society-groups-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-24-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-how-the-kleptocrats-and-oligarchs-hunt-civil-society-groups-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-24-august-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth (24 August 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s links How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth: The carrot is charitable giving, the stick is SLAPP suits and cyberweapons. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth (permalink) It&#8217;s a great time to be an oligarch! If you have accumulated a great fortune and wish to put whatever great crime lies behind it behind you, there is an army of fixers, lickspittles, thugs, reputation-launderers, procurers, henchmen, and other enablers who have turnkey solutions for laundering your reputation and keeping the unwashed from building a guillotine outside the gates of your compound. The field of International Relations has studied the enemies of the Klept in detail: the Transnational Activist Network is a well-documented phenomenon. But far more poorly understood is the Transnational Uncivil Society Network, who will polish any turd of sufficient wealth to a high, professional gloss. These TUSNs are the subject of a new, timely scholarly paper by Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw and Ricard Soares de Oliveira: &#8220;Transnational Uncivil Society Networks: kleptocracy\u2019s global fightback against liberal activism,&#8221; published in last month&#8217;s European Journal of International Relations: https:\/\/ora.ox.ac.uk\/objects\/uuid:5e5a3052-c693-4991-a7cc-bc2b47134467\/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&amp;amp;safe_filename=Cooley_et_al_2023_transnational_uncivil_society.pdf&amp;amp;type_of_work=Journal+article The authors document how a collection of institutions &#8211; some coercive, others organized around good works &#8211; allow kleptocrats to take power, keep power, and use power. This includes&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/08\/23\/launderers-enforcers-bagmen\/\">Pluralistic: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth (24 August 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s links How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth: The carrot is charitable giving, the stick is SLAPP suits and cyberweapons. Hey&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1232,739,29,3374,300,4203,1202,3500,4205,18,4207,4206,4204,811,4208,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}