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International Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes: Toward a Conceptual Framework

Authoritarian regimes use multiple forms of international cooperation to sustain their rule. In scholarly research, however, the study of these phenomena has been marginal and still lacks conceptual clarity. This paper takes stock of these shortcomings and embarks on a review of the existing literature from democratization, diffusion, policy transfer and Europeanization studies. In doing so, it identifies a number of conceptual approaches whose integration can provide a useful framework for the study of the international cooperation of authoritarian regimes. For this, the specific characteristics of nondemocratic rule need to be taken into account - from their preference of some forms of cooperation over others to practical difficulties for empirical fieldwork. Against this backdrop, we provide examples of different types of authoritarian cooperation and conclude by sketching a research agenda that is as politically necessary as it is academically promising.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: GIGA Working Papers ; No. 229

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Thema
authoritarian regimes
international dimension
cooperation, diffusion
learning
policy transfer

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Erdmann, Gero
Bank, André
Hoffmann, Bert
Richter, Thomas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
(wo)
Hamburg
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Erdmann, Gero
  • Bank, André
  • Hoffmann, Bert
  • Richter, Thomas
  • German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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