Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival
- ISBN-10
- 0198746997
- ISBN-13
- 9780198746997
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Joseph Wright, Abel Escribà-Folch, Joseph George Wright
Description
This book examines how coercive foreign policies influence the survival of dictatorships. In particular, the book analyzes five widely used coercive instruments that democracies, international organizations and other transnational actors use to shape politics in authoritarian countries: conditional foreign aid, economic sanctions, human rights shaming campaigns, prosecutions for human right abuses, and military interventions. ForeignPressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival develops a theoretical framework to understand how foreign pressure destabilizes authoritarian regimes, and tests this theory with an analysis of alldictatorships since 1946. The authors distinguish between three types of autocracies: personalist, dominant-party, and military dictatorships. These regimes differ in the strategies they use to retain power, the fate of elites after a transition, and how their regimes end. Due to these differences, coercive foreign policies are found to work in some cases but not others in predictable ways. Besides, while in some cases externally-induced instability may bring democratization, in others a newdictatorship replaces the old one.
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