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- Written by Hansley A. JULIANO
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EXCERPT
"...[T]he literature has tended to either downplay or ignore the role of non-elite political actors (both in terms of action, inaction, or inability to participate) in relation to crises facing many countries. The role of civil society has been usually valorized when scholars turn their attention to what maintains a country’s quality of democracy ... The challenge of addressing these shortcomings is increasingly evident in the works of civil society research worldwide. The most recent is Ibrahim Natil, Vanessa Malila, and Youcef Sai’s, Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organizations (2020), that stands as a recent attempt to not only theoretically synthesize these debates on how civil society organizations (CSOs) may survive unwelcome political contexts, but also the extent to which an organization can “crisis-proof” itself. Their study’s conceptual framework relies on the notion of 'a participatory civil society, researching civic engagement and development despite the challenges of shifts in foreign aid, political and social context.'"
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Hansley A. JULIANO is a Doctoral Candidate of the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, Japan.
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Type of Manuscript: Book Review
Volume, Issue, Year: Volume 59, Issue 1, Year 2023
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Back to Asian Studies 59 (1): 2023
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- Written by Joseph Tse-Hei LEE
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Hong Kong’s “One Country, Two Systems” framework, once lauded for fostering a financial hub and set to expire in 2047, is now widely considered defunct. The imposition of the National Security Law on 30 June 2020 marked an end to the territory’s legal autonomy and signaled Beijing’s direct assertion of political control amid intensifying Sino-American rivalries (Lee 2020b). As Michael C. Davis (2020) observes, “[t]he intrusion of the new national security law is not so much a new behavior as it is a progression of a long pattern of intervention and distrust that dates back to before the handover.” The draconian measures have fundamentally turned the territory’s “promised liberal constitution” into a repressive “national security constitution” (Davis 2020, 8). The Basic Law’s original commitment to a liberal, open society has been dismantled. Perspectives on these measures vary: some see them as necessary responses to perceived existential threats, while others view them as authoritarian tactics to restructure a once-vibrant civil society (Lee 2020c).
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Joseph Tse-Hei Lee is a Professor of History at Pace University in New York City, USA. His research focuses on faith and politics in modern China. His most recent publications include From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes (with Jeff Kyong-McClain, published by Routledge in 2024), RESIST! Democracy and Youth Activism in Myanmar, Hong Kong, and Singapore (with Amy Freedman, published by Pace University Press in 2024), Empire Competition: Southeast Asia as a Site of Imperial Contestation (with Amy Freedman, published by Pace University Press in 2021), and The Church as Safe Haven: Christian Governance in Modern China (with Lars Peter Laamann, by Brill in 2019).
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Type of Manuscript: Essay
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