Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780198746997
Subjects: International relations; Authoritarianism; United states, foreign relations; Europe, foreign relations
Description: Can coercive foreign policy destabilise autocratic regimes? Can democracy be promoted from abroad? This book examines how foreign policy tools such as aid, economic sanctions, human rights shaming and prosecutions, and military intervention influence the survival of autocratic regimes.