Making the World Safe for Dictatorship - Alexander Dukalskis

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-777948-4 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout their popular celebrities, and showcase their successes to elite and popular foreign audiences. However, there is a dark side to these efforts that is sometimes overlooked. Authoritarian states try to obscure or censor bad news about their governments and often discredit their critics abroad. In extreme cases, authoritarian states intimidate, physically attack, or even murder their opponents overseas. All states attempt to manage their global image to some degree, but authoritarian states in the post-Cold War era have special incentives to do so given the predominance of democracy as an international norm.

This book is about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both "promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of repression. Alexander Dukalskis looks at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which their strategies vary from one state to another. Moreover, Dukalskis looks at the degree to which some authoritarian states succeed in using image management to enhance their internal and external security, and, in turn, to make their world safe for dictatorship.

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship uses a diverse array of data, including interviews, cross-national data on extraterritorial repression, examination of public relations filings with the United States government, analysis of authoritarian propaganda, media frequency analysis, and speeches and statements by authoritarian leaders. Dukalskis also builds a new dataset—the Authoritarian Actions Abroad Database—that uses publicly available information to categorize nearly 1,200 instances in which authoritarian states repressed their critical exiles abroad, ranging from vague threats to confirmed assassinations. The book looks closely at three cases—China, North Korea, and Rwanda—to understand in more detail how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using combinations of promotional and obstructive tactics. The result is a new way of thinking about the international dimensions of authoritarian politics.

Alexander Dukalskis is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. His research and teaching interests include authoritarianism, Asian politics, and human rights. His work has been published in several leading journals, including Government & Opposition, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Democracy, China Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, and Democratization. His first book, The Authoritarian Public Sphere: Legitimation and Autocratic Power in North Korea, Burma, and China, was published in 2017.

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 - Introduction: Making the World Safe for Dictatorship
Chapter 2 - The Motivations Behind Authoritarian Image Management
Chapter 3 - Mechanisms of Authoritarian Image Management
Chapter 4 - Selling Dictatorship & Silencing Dissent: A Global Snapshot
Chapter 5 - Controlling Critical Messengers: Foreign Correspondents in China
Chapter 6 - Promoting & Controlling the China Dream: China's External Propaganda and Repression
Chapter 7 - Projecting Peace & Prosperity: Authoritarian Image Management and RPF Rwanda
Chapter 8 - Coping with a Post-Communist World: North Korea
Chapter 9 - Conclusion: Looking Backward, Forward, and Inward
References
Appendix 1: PR & Lobbying Data by Authoritarian States in the United States, 2018-2019
Appendix 2: Authoritarian Actions Abroad Database (AAAD) - Codebook
Appendix 3: Pro-DPRK Groups with Internet Presences

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 226 x 147 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-777948-4 / 0197779484
ISBN-13 978-0-19-777948-4 / 9780197779484
Zustand Neuware
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