Authoritarian Gravity Centers: A Cross-Regional Study of Authoritarian Promotion and Diffusion

ISBN-13: 9780367509750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Marianne Kneuer; Thomas Demmelhuber

Opis

Employing a cross-regional approach, leading experts empirically test the concept of Authoritarian Gravity Centers (AGC) across Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Asia. This book is a vibrant and comprehensive contribution to the growing field of autocratization

Spis treści

Part I: Concept  1. Autocratization and its Pull and Push Factors – A Challenge for Comparative Research  2. Conceptualizing Authoritarian Gravity Centers: Sources and Addressees, Mechanisms and Motives of Authoritarian Pressure and Attraction  Part II: Empirical Studies on Authoritarian Gravity Centers  3. Kingdom of Gravity: Autocratic Promotion and Diffusion in Saudi Arabia  4. Democratic Erosion and Autocratization in Latin America: The Role of Venezuela as an Authoritarian Gravity Centre  5. Kazakhstan: A Possible Future Authoritarian Gravity Centre?  Part III: The International Dimension of Authoritarianism Revisited  6. Russia’s Effects on a Consolidated Democracy: The Erosion of Democracy in Hungary and the Putin Model  7. Iran and its Neighbors: Military Assistance as Support for Authoritarianism  8. Networking with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Party-to-Party Relations in Asia  9. Spreading Cyber-Autocracy? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Diffusion of Norms of “Internet Sovereignty”  Part IV: Authoritarianism Gravity Centres in Cross-Regional Comparison  10. Authoritarian Gravity Centres in Cross-Regional Comparison: Future Studies and the International Dimension of Authoritarianism