Global Autocracies: Strategies of Transnational Repression, Legitimation, and Co-Optation in World Politics
Journal: International Studies Review
Year: 2020

Abstract How, when, and why does a state take repressive action against individuals residing outside its territorial jurisdiction? Beyond state-led domestic forms of control over citizens living within their legal borders, autocracies also seek to target those abroad—from African states’ sponsoring violence against exiled dissidents to Central Asian republics’ extraditions of political émigrés, and from the adoption of spyware software to monitor digital activism across Latin America to enforced