Amanda Murdie

About

I am Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I also serve as a Regents' Professor and the Ivan Allen Jr. Chair in Liberal Arts and Technology. My research focuses on International Relations, specializing in the behavior of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and their interactions with states, local populations, and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Most of my work centers on human rights and human security.

Selected publications

• Communities and Brokers: How the Transnational Advocacy Network Simultaneously Provides Social Power and Exacerbates Global Inequalities

  International Studies Quarterly · 2021-05-22 · 18 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Abstract Transnational advocacy networks (TANs) are the most common example of networks in international relations. Despite their familiarity, we know little about how advocacy networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are structured. Drawing on the cross-disciplinary concepts of emergent communities and distinct brokerage roles, we argue that the network may reinforce power disparities and inequalities at the very same time that it provides social power. TANs are similar to emergent comm…

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• How closing civil society space affects NGO-Government interactions

  Journal of Human Rights · 2023-01-20 · 13 citations

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  A crackdown on the activities of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has recently swept the globe. When faced with increased restrictions, how do NGOs respond? We argue there is a curvilinear relationship between increases in NGO repression and the conflict-to-cooperative nature of NGO interactions with a government. On one end of the spectrum, when civil society repression is limited or nonexistent, NGOs have many reasons to be cooperative with the government. As NGO repression increases, we s…

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• Examining the effects of democratic backsliding on human rights conditions

  Journal of Human Rights · 2024-01-12 · 7 citations

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  What is the link between democratic backsliding and human rights? Existing literature has focused almost exclusively on the effect of increasing democratic features on improvements in human rights. In contrast, we know less regarding the impact of decreasing democracy (i.e., democratic backsliding) on a state's human rights conditions. With the growing influence of antidemocratic movements in many democracies recently, it is imperative that we explore the relationship between democratic backslid…

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• When do environmental NGOs work? A test of the conditional effectiveness of environmental advocacy

  2022-01-10 · 7 citations

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  Under what conditions does environmental non-governmental (NGO) advocacy affect environmental outcomes? We build on earlier theoretical work and contend that the influence of environmental NGO advocacy is conditioned on (a) the ability of local citizens to participate in the advocacy and (b) the vulnerability of the state to external pressure. Without these conditions, environmental NGO advocacy alone will not improve environmental conditions. Using a global dataset of environmental NGO advocacy…

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• Hindsight is 2020: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for future human rights research

  Journal of Human Rights · 2022-05-27 · 6 citations

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  The global COVID-19 pandemic affected much of the world’s human rights for 2020 and 2021 and will continue to have human rights ramifications for years to come. While many things have fundamentally changed due to the pandemic, COVID-19 has also shined a spotlight on certain realities about the existing international human rights regime that may have been missed before. This concluding article to the special issue focuses on four realities that have become evident during the COVID-19 pandemic and…

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Awards & honors

• Karl Deutsch Award
• Regents' Professor
• Georgia Athletic Association Professor of International Affa…

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