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August 27, 2019June 15, 2022 by Robert Benson

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Illiberal Societies and the Rise of Crony Capitalism

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There is an old rock station back in Boston which had a special knack for playing those lesser-known B side tracks. I am reminded of one, a late 70s pop song by Warren Zevon with the quirky title: Lawyers, Guns and Money. It chronicles the exploits of an English expat who finds himself ensnared by a Russian Mafioso after a late night gambling. Half way through the second stanza he sings ‘send lawyers, guns, and money!’ Partially for its whimsy refrain and partially because I happen to like obscure 70s pop, the track strikes me as the perfect namesake for a piece on the rise of crony capitalism.

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May 15, 2018January 7, 2019 by Janne Mende

A New Responsibility in the Making: Business Companies and Human Rights

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There is a global struggle going on, and it is not going to end soon. This struggle concerns the question, to what extent transnational companies are or should be responsible for human rights. In plenty of countries worldwide, lawsuits, civil society campaigns, political and legislative initiatives address companies’ involvement in human rights violations. Rana Plaza, Shell, Nestlé, Daimler or KiK represent just a few out of numerous examples.

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Börzel, Tanja A./Zürn, Michael (2021): “Contestations of the Liberal International Order: From Liberal Multilateralism to Postnational Liberalism”. In: International Organization, 75(2): 282-305.

Cupać, Jelena (2020): “The Feel for the Story. Narratives, Emotions, and Contestation of the Liberal Order”. In: Emotionen in Politik und Gesellschaft,1, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 81–98.

Cupać, Jelena/Ebetürk, Irem (2021): “Backlash Advocacy and NGO Polarization over Women’s Rights in the United Nations”. In: International Affairs, 97(4): 1183-1201.

Ebetürk, Irem (2021): “Global diffusion of laws: The case of minimum age of marriage legislation, 1965–2015″. In: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 1-35 (published online Feb. 26, 2021).

Gerschewski, Johannes (2021): “Explanations of Institutional Change. Reflecting on a ‘Missing Diagonal'”. In: American Political Science Review, 115(1): 218-233.

Koch, Cédric M./Meléndez, Carlos/Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2021): “Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters. What Sets Them Apart?”In: Political Studies (published online Oct. 20, 2021).

Nuhoğlu Soysal, Yasemin/Baltaru, Roxana-Diana (2021): “University as the producer of knowledge, and economic and societal value: the 20th and twenty-first century transformations of the UK higher education system”. In: European Journal of Higher Education, 11(3): 312-328.

Parízek, Michal/Stephen, Matthew D.(2021): “The Increasing Representativeness of International Organizations’ Secretariats: Evidence from the United Nations System, 1997–2015”. In: International Studies Quarterly, 65 (1): 197–209.

Rauh, Christian (2021): “One Agenda or Too Many? The Varying Success of Policy Initiatives by individual Directorate-Generals of the European Commission 1994-2006”. In: European Union Politics, 22(1): 3-24.

Salehi, Mariam (2021): “Trying Just Enough or Promising Too Much? The Problem-Capacity-Nexus in Tunisia’s Transitional Justice Process”. In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 1-19 (published online Feb. 22, 2021).

Schopmans, Hendrik/Cupać, Jelena (2021): “Engines of Patriarchy: Illiberal Backlash Politics and Its Consequences for Ethical Artificial Intelligence”. In: Ethics & International Affairs, 35 (3): 329–342.

Zürn, Michael (2021): “How Non-Majoritarian Institutions Make Silent Majorities Vocal: A Political Explanation of Authoritarian Populism”. In: Perspectives on Politics, 1-20 (published online May 26, 2021).

Zürn, Michael (2021): “Öffentlichkeit und Global Governance”. In: Leviathan -Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, 37, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft: 160–187.

Zürn, Michael/Tokhi, Alexandros/Binder, Martin (2021): “The International Authority Database”. In: Global Policy, 1-13 (published online Jun. 19, 2021).