Recent decades have seen an increasing government crackdown on civil society groups\, particularly non-governmental organizat ions (NGOs). Why do countries repress these organizations? How do they weig h the costs and benefits of using violent and non-violent strategies of cra ckdown and under what conditions do they use one over the other to repress NGOs? This talk will look at the evolution in countries’ repressive toolkit s. It will introduce new data on the use of “administrative crackdown\,” wh ich is the use of laws to control\, obstruct or repress challenging civil s ociety groups. Besides overcoming the negative consequences associated with violence\, administrative crackdown is a more efficient long-term strategy to deal with costly NGOs. The talk will conclude by discussing the implica tions of this crackdown on donors\, local organizations working in besieged countries\, and the role of transnational networks in the Western liberal world order.
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