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Autocrats must overcome a range of challenges as they seek to gain and maintain political power, including the threat that comes from both rival elites and discontented publics. __The International Politics of Authoritarian Rule__ examines the ways in which international forces can encourage and assist autocratic actors in overcoming these challenges. Often, autocratic incumbents are strengthened in power by events on the international stage and by the active support of international allies. The book offers a typology of different international forms of influence on authoritarianism, and examines the ways in which external forces shape autocratic rule at the domestic level. The typology distinguishes between three broad forms of international influence: passive influences, unintended consequences, and active forms of external autocratic sponsorship. The book focuses in particular on the latter category, and examines intentional autocratic sponsorship in the post-Cold War period.A central contribution of the book is to address the question of __how__ international autocratic sponsorship can bolster authoritarian rule. It highlights the ways in which international sponsorship can c

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Author

Oisín Tansey

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191506543

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, History