Pils E (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2021
Book Volume: 14
Article Number: 1958509
Journal Issue: 3
DOI: 10.1080/16544951.2021.1958509
Autocratic control of civil society, including academia, can be extended to democratic societies and institutions in ways that pose threats to liberal-democratic values, such as academic freedom, for example through mechanisms and practices that lead to academic self-censorship. Engaging critically with the literature on ‘sharp power’ and ‘authoritarian influencing’ addressing this phenomenon, this paper argues that democratic actors who, without sharing the repressive goals of autocracies, contribute to their success in settings of international collaboration and exchange can become structurally complicit with such wrongs. Recognizing the risk of complicity is a necessary first step towards addressing the political responsibilities resulting from it.
APA:
Pils, E. (2021). Complicity in democratic engagement with autocratic systems. Ethics & Global Politics, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2021.1958509
MLA:
Pils, Eva. "Complicity in democratic engagement with autocratic systems." Ethics & Global Politics 14.3 (2021).
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