Transnational repression: data advances, comparisons, and challenges

Dukalskis, Alexander; Furstenberg, Saipira; Gorokhovskaia, Yana; Heathershaw, John; Lemon, Edward; Schenkkan, Nate

doi:10.1080/2474736x.2022.2104651

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“…However, we do acknowledge limitations, primarily when it comes to data. Gathering reliable data on TR is difficult (see Dukalskis et al 2022). It is often designed to be hidden and there may be patterns in which cases come to light.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The AAAD was chosen as a data source over other TR databases for its combination of geographical and temporal scope relative to other options (e.g. Furstenberg, Lemon, and Heathershaw 2021; Schenkkan and Linzer 2021; Lemon et al 2022; on TR data, see Dukalskis et al 2022). The sample of states under consideration consists of 88 authoritarian regimes in line with the typologies of Geddes, Wright, and Frantz (2014) and Wahman, Teorell, and Hadenius (2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, threats to family members of the dissidents who are still in the host country allow the authoritarian state to use the institutions of territorial sovereignty to its advantage.

Figure 3.Methods of Transnational Repression and their Frequency, 1991-2019. Data source: Dukalskis (2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Goldstein 1978;Davenport 1995;Gartner and Regan 1996;Davenport 2007b;Carey 2010;Ritter and Conrad 2016;deMeritt 2016;Frantz et al 2020b;Hassan, Mattingly, and Nugent 2022). Widely used indices of repression like the Political Terror Scale or the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project explicitly exclude instances of state repression that take place outside that state's borders (Dukalskis et al 2022). This means that no studies of domestic repression which rely on these or similar sources capture dynamics of TR, leaving important new questions to be explored in an age of resurgent authoritarian powers and global interdependence.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Lessa 2019), in the context of globalization and migration, today’s authoritarian states have turned to TR as a newly salient tool to neutralize political threats. Recent research shows the truly global dimension of TR, with dozens of states around the world involved as perpetrators of TR incidents (Dukalskis 2021; Dukalskis et al, 2022; Lemon et al, 2022; Schenkkan and Linzer 2021). And yet, there is still to our knowledge no global quantitative study on the drivers of TR.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression

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The emerging literature dealing with transnational repression has identified several strategies used by authoritarian states to control and coerce their populations abroad. This article builds on existing research by investigating the domestic determinants of transnational repression. It argues that an increase in domestic repression is likely to lead to a subsequent increase in transnational repression because crackdowns at home drive dissent abroad and incentivize the state to extend its repressive gaze beyond its borders. To evaluate its arguments, the article draws on a database of approximately 1200 cases in which authoritarian states around the world threatened, attacked, extradited, abducted, or assassinated their own citizens abroad between 1991 and 2019. Offering a first quantitative test of domestic drivers of transnational repression, using multivariate regression analysis, the paper finds that as repression intensifies domestically, the likelihood of that state subsequently escalating its transnational repression also increases substantively.

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Figure 3.Methods of Transnational Repression and their Frequency, 1991-2019. Data source: Dukalskis (2021).…”

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Law Enforcement Involvement and Response to Transnational Repression

Cubukcu,

Ozeren

2024

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(Gender) Politics in the Field: The Precarities of Diasporic (Women) Scholars of Iranian Politics during and after the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Uprising

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2024

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had the privilege of co-organizing a panel titled "Women's Resistance, Resilience, and Trauma in Iran: Trajectories, Memories, and Mobilizations." In this panel, I shared initial insights from my project, "The WLF Uprising in Iran: Women's Activism and the Shifting Grounds of Religion." After the panel ended and as we were exchanging thoughts on it with the other three panelists, we were informed by a venue organizer that an individual associated with the Iranian embassy in the Netherlands had attended our session and photographed all of us-four women scholars-during our presentations, only to leave before the session concluded. I stepped out of the conference room quickly and attempted to find this person in the main hall to confront them and inquire about their motives, but they had already left the venue.Reflecting on the incident after the conference, I contemplated the broader implications for scholars researching sensitive subjects related to Iran, especially those who do not share my privilege of having dual Iranian-European nationality. This privilege shields me from the stresses of visa renewals and deportation risks that other scholars from the Global South have to deal with (see testimonials of this in Burlyuk and Rahbari 2023). I have also come to terms with the fact that I may never visit my birth country again, as long as the current regime is in power, as I may face persecution and imprisonment because of my academic work. However, for Iranian scholars holding only Iranian nationality, incidents such as the one we experienced in the conference room could be deeply distressing and may discourage them from practicing their academic freedom and influence their disciplinary approaches and the research topics they choose to pursue.

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Transnational repression: data advances, comparisons, and challenges

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The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression

The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression

Law Enforcement Involvement and Response to Transnational Repression

(Gender) Politics in the Field: The Precarities of Diasporic (Women) Scholars of Iranian Politics during and after the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Uprising

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