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Making the World Safe for Dictatorship by Alexander Dukalskis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Making the World Safe for Dictatorship by Alexander Dukalskis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Making the World Safe for Dictatorship by Alexander Dukalskis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Alexander Dukalskis

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship by Alexander Dukalskis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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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 sometimesoverlooked. 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 somedegree, 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 fromone 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 andstatements 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 toconfirmed 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 internationaldimensions of authoritarian politics. | Making the World Safe for Dictatorship by Alexander Dukalskis, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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