Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival

by Abel Escriba-Folch and Joseph Wright

Can coercive foreign policy destabilize 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.

Foreign pressure destabilizes autocracies through three mechanisms: limiting the regime's capacity to maintain support; undermining its repressive capacity;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198746997
• ISBN13: 9780198746997
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"