International nonprofits

Content for Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Readings

  • Andrew Heiss, “NGOs and Authoritarianism”1 (the PDF for this is on iCollege under “Content”.)
  • Chapter 1, “Your NGO Starter Kit” in William DeMars, NGOs and Transnational Networks: Wild Cards in World Politics2 (the PDF for this is on iCollege under “Content”.)

Written response question

How and for what reasons do countries (authoritarian or democratic) rely on NGOs? Is an international NGO working in an authoritarian regime complicit in any of its human rights abuses? (Answer in ≈150 words.)

Slides

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  1. Andrew Heiss, “NGOs and Authoritarianism,” in Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations, ed. Thomas Davies (London: Routledge, 2019). ↩︎

  2. William DeMars, NGOs and Transnational Networks: Wild Cards in World Politics (London: Pluto Press, 2005), doi:10.2307/j.ctt18fs3q9. ↩︎

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