Marlies Glasius is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam.

Between 2019 and 2022, Professor Glasius served as the Chair of the Politics Department at the University of Amsterdam. She has previously worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science as a founding editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook. She is the author of The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement (Routledge, 2006) and the lead author of Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field (Palgrave, 2018). 

Her research focuses on taxation policy, authoritarianism, global civil society, and international criminal justice, and the global rise of the super-rich. 

Interview with Professor Marlies Glasius - Authoritarian Practices in a Global Age

Professor Marlies Glasius led the ERC-funded project 'Authoritarianism in a Global Age' from 2013 to 2018. Her recent monograph Authoritarian Practices in a Global Age was published by Oxford University Press in 2022 and explores how authoritarian practices unfold within democracies and at the transnational level, highlighting the circumstances in which they thrive, and how they are best challenged. She is the author of The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement (Routledge, 2006) and the lead author of Research, Ethics and Risk in the Authoritarian Field (Palgrave, 2018). In this interview, we speak to Professor Glasius about Authoritarian Practices in a Global Age delving into the book’s themes, the process of researching authoritarian practices and the methodological challenges associated with said research.

Date: 23 September 2023