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AUTHORITARIAN COOPERATION - Coggle Diagram
AUTHORITARIAN COOPERATION
IMPACT
UNEVEN EFFECT
Backlash: contribute democratisation processes
Limited appeal in decison-makers and citizens
Successful autocracy promotion (e.g. Belarus)
Legitimacy-generating economic development: authoritarian stabilisation of party-based regime (e.g. China's performance)
WHEN/WHY
Regime survival: protection of the status quo
3. Perception of similarities
(i.e. when the situation in other countries is the same )
1. Perceived crisis abroad
(how it is going in the backyard)
2. Regime type
(institutional characteristics)
Self-interest: maintain power and soverereignty
Not ideologically driven
TYPES OF COOPERATION
3. Learning
2. Support
E.g.
Russia
--> involved directly --> it tries to limit the impact of democracy promotion in the post-soviet space
Regional instability --> Black knights strategy: Deliberate support to strengthen authoritarian regimes: boosting authoritarian regimes abroad
E.g.: GCC countries' response to the Arab Spring scenario
Succeses (Russia): Belarus and Bahrain
Failures (Russia)
1. Collaboration
It is mainly economic because it is party-based and the regime needs to provide goods.
E.g. China: Economic collaboration with other party-based regimes.
Impact: limited