Autocracies and the temptation of sentimentality: repertoires of the past and contemporary meaning-making in the Gulf monarchies
In: Third world quarterly, Band 44, Heft 5, S. 1003-1020
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Third world quarterly, Band 44, Heft 5, S. 1003-1020
ISSN: 1360-2241
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 32, Heft 139, S. 138-151
ISSN: 1469-9400
Scholarly debates on Chinese foreign policy in the Middle East and the international dimension of authoritarianism have gained momentum since Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. At the same time, the global pandemic provided a window of opportunity to autocrats worldwide to fine-tune their modes of surveillance for the sake of regime survival. This article deconstructs Sino-Emirati relations in the field of digital surveillance. Inspired by Social Network Theory, we explore three transregional public-private elite networks as multipliers for the traveling of authoritarian practices. We show that authoritarian diffusion under the umbrella of fighting the pandemic is not spatially bound to geographical proximity or other structural similarities but rather a global phenomenon that state and non-state actors reproduce. (J Contemp China/GIGA)
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 32, Heft 139, S. 138-151
ISSN: 1469-9400
In: The journal of North African studies, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 362-393
ISSN: 1743-9345
World Affairs Online
In: The Middle East journal, Band 75, Heft 2, S. 334-334
ISSN: 1940-3461
World Affairs Online
In: Conceptualising comparative politics volume 11
"Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure. This book presents a conceptual model to understand, assess, and explain the promotion and diffusion of authoritarian elements. Employing a cross-regional approach, leading experts empirically test the concept of Authoritarian Gravity Centers (AGC) defined as "regimes that constitute a force of attraction and contagion for countries in geopolitical proximity". With an analysis extending across Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Asia, these AGCs are shown to be effective as active promoter (push) or as neutral source of attraction (pull). The authors contend that the influence of exogenous factors, along with international and regional contexts for the transformation of regime types, are vital to understand and analyze the transmission of autocratic institutional settings, ideas, norms, procedures and practices, thus explaining the regional clustering of autocracies. It is the regional context in which external actors can influence authoritarian processes most effectively. Authoritarian Gravity Centers is a vibrant and comprehensive contribution to the growing field of autocratization, which will be of great interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Comparative Area Studies, Illiberalism, International Politics and studies of democracy"--
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In: Mediterranean politics, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 499-521
ISSN: 1354-2982, 1362-9395
World Affairs Online
In: The journal of North African studies, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 362-393
ISSN: 1743-9345
In: The international spectator: a quarterly journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 109-124
ISSN: 0393-2729
World Affairs Online
In: The international spectator: journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 109-124
ISSN: 1751-9721
Intro -- Editorial -- Menschenrechte im Ausnahmezustand -- Gerd Oberleitner -- Das bedrohte Leben der Nation -- Christine Binder -- Human Rights in Times of Emergency -- Claudia Zilla und David Keseberg -- Venezuela: Menschenrechte im Ausnahmezustand -- Thomas Demmelhuber -- Ausnahmezustand als Herrschaftstechnik? -- Radley Henrico and Sarah Fick -- The State of Emergency under the South African Apartheid System of Government: Reflections and Criticisms -- M. Ehteshamul Bari -- The Impact of Declarations of Emergency on Human Rights -- Hintergrund -- Jörg Maywald -- Menschenrechte für Kinder -- Michael Krennerich -- Straight 18 - und die menschenrechtliche Kritik an Minderjährigen in der Bundeswehr -- Forum -- Heiner Bielefeldt -- Moyn's World -- Buchbesprechungen -- Cécile Laborde (2017): Liberalism's Religion, Cambridge/Ma., London, Harvard University Press, 344 S., 36.00 , 28.95 £, 32.50 € -- Philipp Gisbertz (2018): Menschenwürde in der angloamerikanischen Rechtsphilosophie, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 408 Seiten, 104,00 € -- Autorinnen und Autoren.
In: Routledge handbooks
The European Neighbourhood Policy: The challenge of demarcating a complex and contested field of study / Tobias Schumacher -- Beyond enlargement. Conceptualizing the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Frank Schimmelfennig -- EU actorness and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Arne Niemann and Nils Hoffmann -- The challenge of analysing the performance of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Dorina Baltag and Iulian Romanyshyn -- Power and leadership in the European neighbourhood: contending role concepts / Lisbeth Aggestam -- Realism and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Adrian Hyde-Price -- Constructivist approaches to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Petr Kratochvil and Elsa Tulmets -- The study of the European Neighbourhood Policy through the lenses of critical approaches / Asne Kalland Aarstad and Niklas Bremberg -- Methodological and theoretical challenges to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Theofanis Exadaktylos -- Legal perspectives on the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Peter Van Elsuwege and Roman Petrov -- The construction and deconstruction of the EU's neighbourhood / Christopher Browning -- Of borders and boundaries. The neighbourhood as the EU's buffer zone / Andreas Marchetti -- The EU and the European Neighbourhood Policy: The re-making of Europe's Identity / Jan Zielonka -- Strategic narratives of EU foreign policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Alister Miskimmon -- The challenges of a changing eastern neighbourhood / Elena Korosteleva -- The challenges of a changing southern neighbourhood / Thomas Demmelhuber -- Coherence, cohesiveness and consistency in the European Neighbourhood Policy / Tanja Borzel and Bidzina Lebanidze -- European Neighbourhood Policy decision-making at critical junctures: EU institutions, the Member States and neighbourhood countries / Mark Furness -- EU Member States and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Amelia Hadfield -- The European Parliament as an actor in its own right in the in the EU's neighbourhood / Cristian Nitoiu -- Financial instruments and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Anna-Sophie Maass -- The European Neighbourhood Policy between bilateralism and region-building / Federica Bicchi, Gergana Noutcheva and Benedetta Voltolini -- The EU and civilian missions in the neighbourhood / Dimitris Bouris and Madalina Dobrescu -- The European Neighbourhood Policy and the politics of sanctions / Clara Portela -- Ukraine in the European Neighbourhood Policy: A paradoxical partner / Kataryna Wolczuk -- EU-Belarus relations in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Giselle Bosse -- The European Neighbourhood Policy and Moldova: A resilient oligarchic system wedged between the EU and Russia / Florent Parmentier -- The European Neighbourhood Policy and the South Caucasus / Licinia Simao -- The European Neighbourhood Policy and EU-Maghreb relations / Irene Fernandez Molina -- EU-Mashreq relations: Differentiation, conditionality and security / Peter Seeberg -- Israel and Palestine and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Sharon Pardo and Patrick Muller -- Libya and Syria: At the crossroads of European Neighbourhood Policy and EU crisis management / Nicole Koenig -- Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements / Bernard Hoekman -- The European Neighbourhood Policy and energy / Bernd Weber -- Migration: Moving to the centre of the European Neighbourhood Policy / Florian Trauner and Jean-Pierre Cassarino -- Counter-terrorism cooperation and the European Neighbourhood Policy / Chantal Lavallee, Sarah Leonard and Christian Kaunert -- Aid in the European Neighbourhood Policy / Fabienne Bossuyt, Hrant Kostanyan, Jan Orbie and Bruno Vandecasteele -- Perceptions of the European Neighbourhood Policy and of its values and norms promotion / Elisabeth Johansson-Nogues -- European Neighbourhood Policy mechanisms: Conditionality, socialisation and differentiation / Laure Delcour and Eduard Soler I Lecha -- Geopolitics and democracy in the European Neighbourhood Policy / Anna Khakee and Richard Youngs -- Democracy promotion by functional cooperation / Tina Freyburg and Sandra Lavenex -- Human rights in the European Neighbourhood Policy / Rosa Balfour -- The promotion of civil society / Silvia Colombo and Natalia Shapovalova -- The European Neighbourhood Policy and Islamist actors in the southern neighbourhood / Michelle Pace and Sarah Wolff -- The neighbours of the EU's neighbours: Overcoming geographical silos / Sieglinde Gstohl and Erwan Lannon -- The European Neighbourhood Policy and the CFSP/CSDP: From the European Security Strategy to the Global Strategy / Thomas Henokl.
In: Routledge handbooks online
"The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU's most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field. Coherently structured and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this handbook covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU's neighbourhood policy framework through a series of cutting-edge contributions. With chapters from a substantial number of scholars who have been influential in shaping the study of the ENP, this handbook serves to encourage debates which will hopefully produce more conceptual as well as neighbourhood-specific perspectives leading to enriching future studies on the EU's policies towards its neighbourhood. It will be a key reference point both for advanced-level students, scholars and professionals developing knowledge in the fields of EU/European Studies, European Foreign Policy Analysis, Area studies, EU law, and more broadly in political economy, political science, comparative politics, and international relations"