Marlies Glasius
Biographic Data
| ID | 746694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marlies Glasius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marlies |
| FAMILY NAME | Glasius |
| SIGNATURE | GLASIUS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 322 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Front stage contestation and back stage consultation: How Amsterdam navigated the governance of undocumented migrants
Migration governance is one of the most contentious issues of our time, not just between political orientations but also between different levels of government. At the local level, the reality of undocumented migrants’ existence often places municipal authorities in an awkward split between acting in accordance with intransigent national policies and the need to guarantee public order and provide basic care. The academic literature on the ‘local …
What (not) to do about globalised ‘oligarchs’
Tax talk in the Rich Lists: From Celebrating to Scrutinizing the Super-Rich
This article analyses journalism related to the Rich Lists produced by the Sunday Times and Forbes from 1995 to 2022, considering the quantity, content, and discursive framing of the coverage of taxation of the super-rich. It finds that coverage of wealth taxation and tax avoidance by the super-rich was profoundly altered after the global financial crisis. Substantively, the article contributes to a better understanding of secular trends in ideat…
Authoritarian Practices in a Global Age
This book challenges the assumption that authoritarianism is necessarily a phenomenon located at the level of the state, and that states as a whole are therefore either democratic or authoritarian. It provides a parsimonious framework for recognizing and analysing contemporary manifestations of authoritarianism beyond the state, and a number of empirical case studies. In its first chapter, the book offers a new conceptual understanding of authori…
One hundred years of authoritarian practices: United Fruit and its banana plantation workers
Illiberal Practices
Traditional modes of analysis in comparative politics, political theory, and human rights obscure certain features of contemporary manifestations of illiberalism. This chapter demonstrates how a practice approach can expose the ubiquity of strands of illiberalism in all contemporary societies and the ties that run between them, as well as facilitating a fuller analysis of the impact of illiberal leaders. An illiberal practice is defined as a patt…
Illiberal Norm Diffusion: How Do Governments Learn to Restrict Nongovernmental Organizations
Recent decades have witnessed a global cascade of restrictive and repressive measures against nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We theorize that state learning from observing the regional environment, rather than NGO growth per se or domestic unrest, explains this rapid diffusion of restrictions. We develop and test two hypotheses: (1) states adopt NGO restrictions in response to nonarmed bottom-up threats in their regional environment (“lear…
Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and the International Relations event horizon
This Introduction contextualises this special anniversary issue of the journal. The Editors of a previous 2013 special issue of the EJIR (The End of International Relations Theory?) asked if the paradigmatic “theoretical cacophony” in IR was deep and irresolvable. We argue that there is still very much a conversation going on across ‘generalist’ and specialised IR journals, and that renewal and broadening is more important than boundaries per se.…
Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field
This open access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors’ fieldwork experiences in seven authoritarian countries
What authoritarianism is … and is not: ∗ A Practice Perspective
This article highlights three main problems with current conceptualizations of authoritarianism: they constitute a negative or residual category, focus excessively on elections and assume that authoritarianism is necessarily a state-level phenomenon. Such ‘regime classifications’ cannot help us comment intelligently on public concerns that politicians like President Rodrigo Duterte, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Viktor Orban or Pre…
Resisting neoliberalism? Movements against austerity and for democracy in Cairo, Athens and London
Drawing on interviews conducted with activists from Athens, Cairo and London in 2013, we examine activists’ understandings of, critiques of and concerns around neoliberal policies. We demonstrate that activists often imply, and sometimes explicitly formulate, a fundamental incompatibility between the current economic system and their conceptions of democracy, but also that ‘anti-neoliberal’ is a very inadequate label for describing their politica…
Intervention: Extraterritorial authoritarian power
What does democracy mean? Activist views and practices in Athens, Cairo, London and Moscow
We shed light on the discontent with and the appeal of democracy by interviewing some of the most committed critical citizens: core activists in street protests. Based on interviews in Athens, Cairo, London, and Moscow, we found that they rejected representative democracy as insufficient, and believed democracy to entail having a voice and a responsibility to participate intensively in political decision-making. Activists saw themselves as engage…
Extraterritorial authoritarian practices: A Framework
This introduction to the Special Issue on 'Authoritarian rule of populations abroad' develops a new theory to better understand how authoritarian rule is exercised over populations abroad and to connect this extraterritorial dimension to the character and resilience of contemporary authoritarian rule. Authoritarian states today have various motivations for tolerating or even sponsoring their population's mobility, and they have learnt to manage a…
Civil and Uncivil Society
This entry traces the genealogy of the concept of civil society and its recent resurgence. It discusses the problematic conceptualization of the “civility” of civil society and the antonymous concept of uncivil society, and briefly relates civil society to democracy and democratization and to capitalism, ending with a reflection on the debates relating to the existence and nature of a global civil society
Trials as Messages of Justice: What Should Be Expected of International Criminal Courts
This article addresses the question what—if anything—we can and should expect from the practice of international criminal justice. It argues that neither retributive nor purely consequentialist, deterrence-based justifications give sufficient guidance as to what international criminal courts should aim to achieve. Instead, the legal theory of expressivism provides a more viable (but not unproblematic) guide. Contrary to other expressivist views, …
It Sends a Message’: Liberian Opinion Leaders’ Responses to the Trial of Charles Taylor
This article investigates the potential impact of an international criminal trial on a post-conflict society. It assesses the claims of legal expressivism, which conceptualizes criminal justice as a message sending mechanism that can enunciate societal condemnation of atrocities, establish an authoritative historical record, and strengthen respect for the rule of law. This article examines the trial of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for …
Surreptitious Symbiosis: Engagement Between Activists and NGOs
Based on research conducted in Athens, Cairo, London and Yerevan, the article analyzes the relationship between activists engaged in street protests or direct action since 2011 and NGOs. It examines how activists relate to NGOs and whether it is possible to do sustained activism to bring about social change without becoming part of a ‘civil society industry.’ The article argues that while at first glance NGOs seem disconnected from recent street …
La résonance des « mouvements des places: Connexions, Émotions, Valeurs
Since 2011, wide-scale mobilization of citizens has developed in very different contexts and around basically national demands.Nevertheless, certain aspects of the Arab revolutions, the ‘Indignados’ movement and Occupy or the demonstrations for more democracy in Mexico or in Russia share certain points in common which means that they resonate with one another. This article aims to explore these by reviewing the networks and connections, a global …
The Global Moment of 2011: Democracy, Social Justice and Dignity
In this contribution, we argue that post-2010 activisms, ranging from the Arab revolts to the Occupy movement, the Indignados and anti-austerity protests in Europe, and the pro-democracy protests in Russia and Mexico, exhibit three kinds of commonalities. These are a common infrastructure of networks and meetings that facilitate rapid diffusion; a generational background shaped both by the precarity of paid work and by exposure to and participati…
Constructions of Legitimacy: The Charles Taylor Trial
This article examines the discourses of the prosecution and the defence in the case of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It contributes to current debates about the legitimacy and utility of international criminal justice, which have tended to neglect the examination of actual trials, and particularly the role of the defence. We draw on the legal doctrine of ‘expressivism’ to theorize the connection between normative legit…
Do International Criminal Courts Require Democratic Legitimacy
International criminal courts have in recent years been criticized for being 'undemocratic' in their dealings with populations affected by the crimes they are concerned with. They are beginning to formulate responses to these criticisms. This article will first outline the nature of these critiques and the courts' responses. Then it will take inspiration from classical and recent theories in legal sociology and legal anthropology to assess whethe…
Dissident writings as political theory on civil society and democracy
This article offers an analysis of precisely how civil society and its relation to democracy were conceptualised by its East European and South American proponents in their pre-democratic contexts, through an examination of declarations, newspaper articles, samizdat essays, diaries, letters from prison, academic articles and prize acceptance speeches written at the time. The analysis of these source materials is organised under three main themes:…
Bottom-Up Politics
Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understa
Global Civil Society 2011
Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement
Extraterritorial authoritarian practices: A Framework
This introduction to the Special Issue on 'Authoritarian rule of populations abroad' develops a new theory to better understand how authoritarian rule is exercised over populations abroad and to connect this extraterritorial dimension to the character and resilience of contemporary authoritarian rule. Authoritarian states today have various motivations for tolerating or even sponsoring their population's mobility, and they have learnt to manage a…
Illiberal Norm Diffusion: How Do Governments Learn to Restrict Nongovernmental Organizations
Recent decades have witnessed a global cascade of restrictive and repressive measures against nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We theorize that state learning from observing the regional environment, rather than NGO growth per se or domestic unrest, explains this rapid diffusion of restrictions. We develop and test two hypotheses: (1) states adopt NGO restrictions in response to nonarmed bottom-up threats in their regional environment (“lear…
The Global Moment of 2011: Democracy, Social Justice and Dignity
In this contribution, we argue that post-2010 activisms, ranging from the Arab revolts to the Occupy movement, the Indignados and anti-austerity protests in Europe, and the pro-democracy protests in Russia and Mexico, exhibit three kinds of commonalities. These are a common infrastructure of networks and meetings that facilitate rapid diffusion; a generational background shaped both by the precarity of paid work and by exposure to and participati…
The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement
A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective. It describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and those who defend it. It also makes these issues accessible to non-lawyers and presents effective advocacy strategies for non-government…
Intervention: Extraterritorial authoritarian power
Surreptitious Symbiosis: Engagement Between Activists and NGOs
Based on research conducted in Athens, Cairo, London and Yerevan, the article analyzes the relationship between activists engaged in street protests or direct action since 2011 and NGOs. It examines how activists relate to NGOs and whether it is possible to do sustained activism to bring about social change without becoming part of a ‘civil society industry.’ The article argues that while at first glance NGOs seem disconnected from recent street …
Human Security from Paradigm Shift to Operationalization: Job Description for a Human Security Worker
This article shows how human security has functioned as both a paradigm-shifting and a bridging concept, with its most significant implications being, first, the shift from a focus on state security to one on human rights, and, second, the indivisibility of physical and material security. The article will argue that, despite attempts at narrowing and appropriation, human security has lost neither its radical edge nor its holistic character; howev…
La résonance des « mouvements des places: Connexions, Émotions, Valeurs
Since 2011, wide-scale mobilization of citizens has developed in very different contexts and around basically national demands.Nevertheless, certain aspects of the Arab revolutions, the ‘Indignados’ movement and Occupy or the demonstrations for more democracy in Mexico or in Russia share certain points in common which means that they resonate with one another. This article aims to explore these by reviewing the networks and connections, a global …
Trials as Messages of Justice: What Should Be Expected of International Criminal Courts
This article addresses the question what—if anything—we can and should expect from the practice of international criminal justice. It argues that neither retributive nor purely consequentialist, deterrence-based justifications give sufficient guidance as to what international criminal courts should aim to achieve. Instead, the legal theory of expressivism provides a more viable (but not unproblematic) guide. Contrary to other expressivist views, …
Resisting neoliberalism? Movements against austerity and for democracy in Cairo, Athens and London
Drawing on interviews conducted with activists from Athens, Cairo and London in 2013, we examine activists’ understandings of, critiques of and concerns around neoliberal policies. We demonstrate that activists often imply, and sometimes explicitly formulate, a fundamental incompatibility between the current economic system and their conceptions of democracy, but also that ‘anti-neoliberal’ is a very inadequate label for describing their politica…
What does democracy mean? Activist views and practices in Athens, Cairo, London and Moscow
We shed light on the discontent with and the appeal of democracy by interviewing some of the most committed critical citizens: core activists in street protests. Based on interviews in Athens, Cairo, London, and Moscow, we found that they rejected representative democracy as insufficient, and believed democracy to entail having a voice and a responsibility to participate intensively in political decision-making. Activists saw themselves as engage…
The backlash against civil society in the wake of the Long War on Terror
The enthusiasm for civil society that emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the spread of democratic regimes has been replaced in recent years by a backlash against civil society on many levels and fronts. This has particularly intensified since the attacks of 11 September 2001 and the ensuing global war on terror. This article examines the causes of this backlash within the context of the 'Long War on Terro…
Does the Involvement of Global Civil Society Make International Decision-Making More Democratic? The Case of the International Criminal Court
The negotiation and contents of the Statute for an International Criminal Court (ICC) were strongly influenced by global civil society actors. After examining definitions of global civil society, this article will consider whether and why such involvement of non-governmental actors in international negotiations should be considered desirable. In particular it will assess, in the light of the ICC negotiations, to what extent global civil society d…
Dissident writings as political theory on civil society and democracy
This article offers an analysis of precisely how civil society and its relation to democracy were conceptualised by its East European and South American proponents in their pre-democratic contexts, through an examination of declarations, newspaper articles, samizdat essays, diaries, letters from prison, academic articles and prize acceptance speeches written at the time. The analysis of these source materials is organised under three main themes:…
We ourselves, we are part of the functioning: The ICC, victims, and civil society in the Central African Republic
As a new justice institution, the International Criminal Court needs to gain legitimacy not just with states, but also in civil society, both at the global level and in the societies in which it intervenes. This article, based on interviews, NGO documents, newspaper articles, and participatory observation, looks at civil society relations with the ICC in relation to its most recent and least publicized investigation, in the Central African Republ…
Introduction: Interdisciplinarity and the International Relations event horizon
This Introduction contextualises this special anniversary issue of the journal. The Editors of a previous 2013 special issue of the EJIR (The End of International Relations Theory?) asked if the paradigmatic “theoretical cacophony” in IR was deep and irresolvable. We argue that there is still very much a conversation going on across ‘generalist’ and specialised IR journals, and that renewal and broadening is more important than boundaries per se.…
It Sends a Message’: Liberian Opinion Leaders’ Responses to the Trial of Charles Taylor
This article investigates the potential impact of an international criminal trial on a post-conflict society. It assesses the claims of legal expressivism, which conceptualizes criminal justice as a message sending mechanism that can enunciate societal condemnation of atrocities, establish an authoritative historical record, and strengthen respect for the rule of law. This article examines the trial of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for …
Global Justice Meets Local Civil Society: The International Criminal Court's Investigation in the Central African Republic
As a new justice institution, the International Criminal Court (ICC) needs to gain legitimacy not just with states but also in civil society, both at the global level and in the societies in which it intervenes. This article, based on interviews, NGO documents, newspaper articles, and participatory observation, looks at civil-society relations with the ICC in relation to its most recent and least publicized investigation—that in the Central Afric…
Constructions of Legitimacy: The Charles Taylor Trial
This article examines the discourses of the prosecution and the defence in the case of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It contributes to current debates about the legitimacy and utility of international criminal justice, which have tended to neglect the examination of actual trials, and particularly the role of the defence. We draw on the legal doctrine of ‘expressivism’ to theorize the connection between normative legit…
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Foreign Policy on Human Rights: Its Influence on Indonesia under Soeharto
This work explores economic, social and cultural rights from two perspectives, theoretical and procedural. It aims to provide a better understanding of economic, social and cultural rights, encouraging greater consistency between these and civil and political rights. The status of economic, social and cultural rights as human rights is analysed, with reference to political, philosophical and legal factors. The book also examines the supervisory m…
Exploring Civil Society: Political and Cultural Contexts
Part 1: Introduction 1. Exploring Civil Society Internationally Part 2: Setting out the Argument 2. Putting Civil Society in its Place 3. The Problem with Civil Society or Putting Modern European History Back into Contemporary Debate 4. Civil Society in Multilingual Polities 5. In the Church of Civil Society Part 3: Owning the Concept: Latin America and Eastern Europe 6. Civil society in Latin-America: Uncivil, liberal and participatory models 7.…
Global Civil Society 2004/5
Commentary on Keane: “Eleven theses on markets and civil society”
The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement
A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective. It describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and those who defend it. It also makes these issues accessible to non-lawyers and presents effective advocacy strategies for non-government…
Global Civil Society 2006/7
Does the Involvement of Global Civil Society Make International Decision-Making More Democratic? The Case of the International Criminal Court
The negotiation and contents of the Statute for an International Criminal Court (ICC) were strongly influenced by global civil society actors. After examining definitions of global civil society, this article will consider whether and why such involvement of non-governmental actors in international negotiations should be considered desirable. In particular it will assess, in the light of the ICC negotiations, to what extent global civil society d…
Human Security from Paradigm Shift to Operationalization: Job Description for a Human Security Worker
This article shows how human security has functioned as both a paradigm-shifting and a bridging concept, with its most significant implications being, first, the shift from a focus on state security to one on human rights, and, second, the indivisibility of physical and material security. The article will argue that, despite attempts at narrowing and appropriation, human security has lost neither its radical edge nor its holistic character; howev…
Global Justice Meets Local Civil Society: The International Criminal Court's Investigation in the Central African Republic
As a new justice institution, the International Criminal Court (ICC) needs to gain legitimacy not just with states but also in civil society, both at the global level and in the societies in which it intervenes. This article, based on interviews, NGO documents, newspaper articles, and participatory observation, looks at civil-society relations with the ICC in relation to its most recent and least publicized investigation—that in the Central Afric…
The European Union as a State-Builder: Policies towards Serbia and Sri Lanka
This article analyses the European Unions state-building policies with reference to two ailing states: Serbia and Sri Lanka. After an introduction on the evolution of the European Unions foreign policy, we discuss commonalities between the Serbian and Sri Lankan polity: their boundaries are contested; the governmental machineries are ineffective and corrupt, and state capacity wanting; there is a lack of social cohesion that goes beyond ethnic di…
We ourselves, we are part of the functioning: The ICC, victims, and civil society in the Central African Republic
As a new justice institution, the International Criminal Court needs to gain legitimacy not just with states, but also in civil society, both at the global level and in the societies in which it intervenes. This article, based on interviews, NGO documents, newspaper articles, and participatory observation, looks at civil society relations with the ICC in relation to its most recent and least publicized investigation, in the Central African Republ…
The backlash against civil society in the wake of the Long War on Terror
The enthusiasm for civil society that emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the spread of democratic regimes has been replaced in recent years by a backlash against civil society on many levels and fronts. This has particularly intensified since the attacks of 11 September 2001 and the ensuing global war on terror. This article examines the causes of this backlash within the context of the 'Long War on Terro…
Civil society and nuclear non-proliferation: How do states respond
Uncivil Society
Bottom-Up Politics
Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understa
Global Civil Society 2011
Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement
Constructions of Legitimacy: The Charles Taylor Trial
This article examines the discourses of the prosecution and the defence in the case of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It contributes to current debates about the legitimacy and utility of international criminal justice, which have tended to neglect the examination of actual trials, and particularly the role of the defence. We draw on the legal doctrine of ‘expressivism’ to theorize the connection between normative legit…
Do International Criminal Courts Require Democratic Legitimacy
International criminal courts have in recent years been criticized for being 'undemocratic' in their dealings with populations affected by the crimes they are concerned with. They are beginning to formulate responses to these criticisms. This article will first outline the nature of these critiques and the courts' responses. Then it will take inspiration from classical and recent theories in legal sociology and legal anthropology to assess whethe…
Dissident writings as political theory on civil society and democracy
This article offers an analysis of precisely how civil society and its relation to democracy were conceptualised by its East European and South American proponents in their pre-democratic contexts, through an examination of declarations, newspaper articles, samizdat essays, diaries, letters from prison, academic articles and prize acceptance speeches written at the time. The analysis of these source materials is organised under three main themes:…
La résonance des « mouvements des places: Connexions, Émotions, Valeurs
Since 2011, wide-scale mobilization of citizens has developed in very different contexts and around basically national demands.Nevertheless, certain aspects of the Arab revolutions, the ‘Indignados’ movement and Occupy or the demonstrations for more democracy in Mexico or in Russia share certain points in common which means that they resonate with one another. This article aims to explore these by reviewing the networks and connections, a global …
The Global Moment of 2011: Democracy, Social Justice and Dignity
In this contribution, we argue that post-2010 activisms, ranging from the Arab revolts to the Occupy movement, the Indignados and anti-austerity protests in Europe, and the pro-democracy protests in Russia and Mexico, exhibit three kinds of commonalities. These are a common infrastructure of networks and meetings that facilitate rapid diffusion; a generational background shaped both by the precarity of paid work and by exposure to and participati…
Surreptitious Symbiosis: Engagement Between Activists and NGOs
Based on research conducted in Athens, Cairo, London and Yerevan, the article analyzes the relationship between activists engaged in street protests or direct action since 2011 and NGOs. It examines how activists relate to NGOs and whether it is possible to do sustained activism to bring about social change without becoming part of a ‘civil society industry.’ The article argues that while at first glance NGOs seem disconnected from recent street …
It Sends a Message’: Liberian Opinion Leaders’ Responses to the Trial of Charles Taylor
This article investigates the potential impact of an international criminal trial on a post-conflict society. It assesses the claims of legal expressivism, which conceptualizes criminal justice as a message sending mechanism that can enunciate societal condemnation of atrocities, establish an authoritative historical record, and strengthen respect for the rule of law. This article examines the trial of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for …
Civil and Uncivil Society
This entry traces the genealogy of the concept of civil society and its recent resurgence. It discusses the problematic conceptualization of the “civility” of civil society and the antonymous concept of uncivil society, and briefly relates civil society to democracy and democratization and to capitalism, ending with a reflection on the debates relating to the existence and nature of a global civil society
Political science (36 works) · Politics (26 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Law (25 works) · Democracy (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Civil society (12 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Authoritarianism (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works)