Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad. They
invest in foreign-facing media, hire public relations firms, tout
their popular celebrities, and showcase their successes to elite
and popular foreign audiences. However, there is a dark side to
these efforts that is sometimes overlooked. 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. 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. This book is about how
authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both
"promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of
repression. 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. Making the World Safe for Dictatorship uses a diverse
array of data, including 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. Dukalskis also 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. The
book looks closely at three cases, China, North Korea, and Rwanda,
to understand in more detail how authoritarian states manage their
image abroad using combinations of promotional and obstructive
tactics. The result is a new way of thinking about the
international dimensions of authoritarian politics.
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