Making the world safe for dictatorship / Alexander Dukalskis.

"Authoritarian states try to present a positive image of themselves abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, retain public relations firms, and showcase their successes to elite and popular foreign audiences. But there is also a darker side to these efforts. Authoritarian states try to obsc...

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Main Author: Dukalskis, Alexander (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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245 1 0 |a Making the world safe for dictatorship /  |c Alexander Dukalskis. 
264 1 |a New York, N.Y. :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c [2021] 
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300 |a 1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) :  |b illustration. 
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505 0 |a Introduction : making the world safe for dictatorship -- The motivations behind authoritarian image management -- Mechanisms of authoritarian image management -- Selling dictatorship & silencing dissent : a global snapshot -- Controlling critical messengers : foreign correspondents in China -- Promoting & controlling the China dream : China's external propaganda and repression -- Projecting peace & prosperity : authoritarian image management and RPF Rwanda -- coping with a post-Communist world : North Korea -- Conclusion : looking backward, forward, and inward -- PR & lobbying data by authoritarian states in the United States, 2018-2019 -- Authoritarian actions abroad database (AAAD) -- Codebook -- Version 5 (Sept. 2020) -- Pro-DPRK Groups with Internet Presences (as of November 2019). 
520 |a "Authoritarian states try to present a positive image of themselves abroad. They invest in foreign-facing media, retain public relations firms, and showcase their successes to elite and popular foreign audiences. But there is also a darker side to these efforts. 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. This book is about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both "promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of repression. They adopt these practices to enhance their internal and external regime security, or put differently, to make their world safe for dictatorship. To substantiate these arguments the book uses a diverse array of data, including fieldwork and author 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 and statements by authoritarian leaders. It 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 to confirmed assassinations. It also selects three cases for closer examination to understand in more detail how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using combinations of promotional and obstructive tactics: China, North Korea, and Rwanda. The result is a new way of thinking about the international dimensions of authoritarian politics"--  |c Provided by publisher 
588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed September 3, 2021). 
650 0 |a Authoritarianism  |x Public relations. 
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650 0 |a Mass media and propaganda. 
650 0 |a Mass media and public opinion. 
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650 7 |a Mass media and public opinion  |2 fast 
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