Transnational civil disobedience is a form of nonviolent, symbolic, and illegal protest that specifically engages the concepts of global citizens and a global public. It is a model of civil disobedience that takes global citizens to be the agents of civilly disobedient protest who address a global public with a global sense of justice. Here the targets of such protest may well include the formal institutions of either national or international law. More often than not, however, the favored targets of protest are powerful and influential actors ranging from global financial institutions to multinational corporations able to shape the pluralism of informal regulatory “regimes” more characteristic of coordination processes under globalization. Such processes are informal in that they amount to little more than fluid and incompletely defined agreements that are responses to the increasing pace of global interactions, and which lack the backing of formal and codified law.
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Allen, M. (2011). Civil Disobedience, Transnational. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_167
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