There is increasing evidence that the renewed resilience of authoritarian regimes is due, in
part, to authoritarian learning. While scholarly interest in authoritarian learning is growing, it …

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 …

In 1999, as a freshman at Peking University, I lived on the Changping campus together with
about eight hundred other social sciences and humanities majors. The campus, located on …

Globalisation is usually interpreted as a process of homogenisation, but considering that
there are multiple globalisation processes at work this is hardly adequate. Globalisation is …

Current scholarship increasingly argues that international factors and, more specifically,
authoritarian collaboration fundamentally affect the persistence of authoritarian rule. In order …

The so-called 'Arab Awakening'is a momentous event that surprised both scholars and
policy makers. For over a decade the paradigm of authoritarian resilience had dominated …

Can the internet fundamentally challenge non-free regimes? The role that social networking
has played in promoting political change in the Middle East and beyond raises important …

The debate on regime change has experienced a U-turn. Attention has shifted from the
regime transitions occurred during the so-called third wave of democratization to the signals …

Recent decades have witnessed a global cascade of restrictive and repressive measures
against nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We theorize that state learning from …

In response to the uprisings of 2011, Syria's Assad regime brought the full weight of its
repressive apparatus down on the heads of peaceful protesters, provoking reactions that led …