Conclusion

Oxford University Press eBooks, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 167 - 181

Опубликована: Фев. 3, 2025

Abstract The concluding chapter summarizes key findings to recap when, how, and under which conditions dictator clubs benefit the survival of authoritarian regimes across time world regions. It then discusses important implications for politics, particularly state liberal international order future development democracy globe. Dictator are increasingly engaged on stage coordinate positions challenge established multilateral institutions. With growing challenges both from reinforcement rule by democratic backsliding, a global retreat US hegemonic power, fate remains more unclear than ever.

Язык: Английский

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Dedication

Опубликована: Фев. 3, 2025

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The Dictators’ Club

Oxford University Press eBooks, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 19 - 41

Опубликована: Фев. 3, 2025

Abstract This chapter develops the central theoretical argument based on a rational institutionalist account of international cooperation authoritarian regimes. It argues that autocratic regimes will commit to institutionalized forms enhance their joint preference regime survival through membership in dictator clubs. The further theorizes three causal processes link clubs and survival. These include resource redistribution toward incumbent elites strengthen power vis-à-vis domestic challengers, regulation non-interference protect from regional shielding fallout sanctions lower risk employing costly strategies.

Язык: Английский

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Introduction

Oxford University Press eBooks, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 18

Опубликована: Фев. 3, 2025

Abstract After showing the divergent development of membership in regional organizations (ROs) with regard to regime type since 1945, this introductory chapter provides an accessible presentation theoretical argument that institutions stabilize authoritarian regimes by redistributing resources, regulating relationships fellow RO members, and protecting them from international pressure. The reviews relevant organization comparative politics literature, presents mixed-methods research design summaries both statistical analysis case analysis, describes findings in-depth studies, discusses implications for current debates on liberal order future democratization.

Язык: Английский

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Introduction

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

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Gender-based digital transnational repression and the authoritarian targeting of women in the diaspora

Democratization, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 23

Опубликована: Март 18, 2025

Authoritarian governments rely on digital transnational repression to silence criticism and dissent outside their territories. Women human rights defenders journalists in exile the diaspora face particular, gendered forms of threats that exploit gender identity intimidate, shame discredit them. Based 51 qualitative interviews with women originating from six countries (Azerbaijan, Eritrea, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Xinjiang/China) residing 17 host countries, this article investigates some key tactics gender-based repression. We argue monitoring, invasive surveillance, online harassment defamation aim either subject exiled activists control repressive state again or stigmatize distance them communities. By turning misogyny into a tool political repression, authoritarian regimes are able amplify attacks against activists, expanding actor configurations involved strategies. Our findings highlight how extends domination domestic "offline" settings space field.

Язык: Английский

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The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression

Journal of Conflict Resolution, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 68(6), С. 1051 - 1079

Опубликована: Июль 13, 2023

The emerging literature dealing with transnational repression has identified several strategies used by authoritarian states to control and coerce their populations abroad. This article builds on existing research investigating the domestic determinants of repression. It argues that an increase in is likely lead a subsequent because crackdowns at home drive dissent abroad incentivize state extend its repressive gaze beyond borders. To evaluate arguments, draws database approximately 1200 cases which around world threatened, attacked, extradited, abducted, or assassinated own citizens between 1991 2019. Offering first quantitative test drivers repression, using multivariate regression analysis, paper finds as intensifies domestically, likelihood subsequently escalating also increases substantively.

Язык: Английский

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Online repression and transnational social movements: Thailand and the #MilkTeaAlliance

Political Research Exchange, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 2, 2024

Research on the formation of transnational social movements primarily view these as either exile support a local movement or mobilization around an international issue. This article presents different argument for activism drawing logic repression-dissent nexus when considering combination online and offline performances contemporary movements. The starting point is that membership in communities constitutes identity potential protest participants can be activated politicized states’ seek to repress access content interaction. Since are borderless by nature, we suggest regimes employ repression due protests then will see backlash facilitate movement. We illustrate our with empirical discussion about how anti-government Thailand 2020 became part facilitated growing youth discontent Southeast East Asia. example shows impetus increasing co-operation throughout process was response Thai authorities both street.

Язык: Английский

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Ethics and Epistemic Injustice in the Global South: A Response to Hopman’s Human Rights Exceptionalism as Justification for Covert Research

Journal of Human Rights Practice, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 15(2), С. 347 - 373

Опубликована: Май 3, 2023

Abstract This article investigates the risk of epistemic injustice in conducting sociolegal research Global South contexts. Diving into ethical imperatives honouring knowledge, agency, and voice, we challenge extractive practices reframe participants as active, legitimate bearers knowledge. Covert is a highly controversial practice which bypasses right to informed consent participants. Marieke Hopman’s titled ‘Covert Qualitative Research Method Study Human Rights Under Authoritarian Regimes’ advocates for covert field human rights, provided this passes her proposed ‘ethical test’. We argue that test permits requires knowledge-making unjustly silence, undervalue, exclude capacity systematically marginalised communities produce knowledge claims. researchers translate participants’ testimonies situated doctrinal rights framework, comes with certain onto-epistemological assumptions may not be shared by Her approach frustrates agency choosing their own projects. Finally, exacerbates structural inequalities between North reinforcing unequal power relations. advocate ethics mitigate socio-legal South. Cross-cultural dialogue western non-hegemonic on non-hierarchical equal basis can contribute building ‘intercultural ethics’. Reflexivity – where critically examine worldviews social position throughout process ensure greater accountability integrity. Reciprocity mutual relationships producing useful researched help shift imbalance researcher researched.

Язык: Английский

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(Gender) Politics in the Field: The Precarities of Diasporic (Women) Scholars of Iranian Politics during and after the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Uprising

Politics & Gender, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 20(2), С. 506 - 512

Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2024

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Язык: Английский

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