Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship is about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both "promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of repression. All states attempt to manage their global image to some degree, but authoritarian states in the post-Cold War era have special incentives to do so given the predominance of democracy as an international norm. Alexander Dukalskis looks at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which their strategies vary from one state to another. Moreover, Dukalskis looks at the degree to which some authoritarian states succeed in using image management to enhance their internal and external security, and, in turn, to make their world safe for dictatorship.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Chapter 1 - Introduction: Making the World Safe for Dictatorship


• Chapter 2 - The Motivations Behind Authoritarian Image Management


• Chapter 3 - Mechanisms of Authoritarian Image Management


• Chapter 4 - Selling Dictatorship and Silencing Dissent: A Global Snapshot


• Chapter 5 - Controlling Critical Messengers: Foreign Correspondents in China


• Chapter 6 - Promoting and Controlling the China Dream: China's External Propaganda and Repression


• Chapter 7 - Projecting Peace and Prosperity: Authoritarian Image Management and RPF Rwanda


• Chapter 8 - Coping with a Post-Communist World: North Korea


• Chapter 9 - Conclusion: Looking Backward, Forward, and Inward


• References


• Appendix 1: PR and Lobbying Data by Authoritarian States in the United States, 2018-2019


• Appendix 2: Authoritarian Actions Abroad Database (AAAD) - Codebook


• Appendix 3: Pro-DPRK Groups with Internet Presences

About the author

Alexander Dukalskis is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. His research and teaching interests include authoritarianism, Asian politics, and human rights. His work has been published in several leading journals, including Government & Opposition, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Democracy, China Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, and Democratization. His first book, The Authoritarian Public Sphere: Legitimation and Autocratic Power in North Korea, Burma, and China, was published in 2017.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Dukalskis, Alexander (Associate Professor in the S Dukalskis, Dukalskis Alexander
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9780197779484
• ISBN: 978-0-19-777948-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Political structures: democracy, Comparative Politics, Diplomacy, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution