Foreign pressure and the politics of autocratic survival

Foreign pressure and the politics of autocratic survival / Abel Escribà-Folch and Joseph Wright.

Can coercive foreign policy destabilise autocratic regimes? Can democracy be promoted from abroad? This book examines how foreign policy tools such as aid, economic sanctions, human rights shaming and prosecutions, and military intervention influence the survival of autocratic regimes.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Escribà-Folch, Abel
Other Authors: Wright, Joseph (Joseph George), 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:Oxford studies in democratization.
Subjects:
International relations.
Democratization.
international relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Democratization
International relations
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Table of Contents:
  • Autocratic regimes and their collapse
  • Foreign pressure and autrocratic survival
  • Foreign aid and political reform
  • Economic sanctions and the defeat of dictators
  • Naming and shaming dictatorships
  • Do human rights prosecutions destabilize dictatorships?
  • Military intervention and regime change.

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