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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"regime survival"”.
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Greening for Self-Conservation? Energy Security and Responses to Climate Change in the Small Gulf Monarchies
… and divergent methods. Departing from a regime survival strategy-oriented approach, the thesis aims to determine the drivers and motives of change and divergence behind the energy security and climate change-related perceptions, approaches, and policies of these two monarchies’ …
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Religion and political survival: The regional strategies of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar
Do Middle Eastern regimes use the contest between secularism and religion as a domestic authoritarian survival strategy, and if so, has this been projected into their regional policies in response to the ‘Arab Spring’? Post-Secular Theory has focused on the role of religion in domestic politics, …
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Hashemite survival strategy: the anatomy of peace, security and alliance making in Jordan
… the "change in threat perceptions in regards to regime survival" and the "change in foreign policy" in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. More specifically, it gives special attention to the factors that determined the regime's alignment choice within the peace process. Because of the rare nature …
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Mythmaking, Mega-events, and Coercion: Autocratic Legitimation in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
… progress. It explores why and how the autocratic regimes in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are remarkably resilient, despite domestic policy failures, mass protests, and suffocating geopolitical alliances. Drawing on comparative political analysis, this study analyses the stabilisation mechanisms of …
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The Strategic Balance between the Public and Allies: A Theory of Authoritarian Distribution in China
<p>This project explores how authoritarian regimes can meet the demands of both the ruling coalition and the public from a perspective of distributional politics. This challenge is particularly severe since authoritarian regimes face increasing pressure to expand public goods and welfare. This …
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The role of parliaments in the resilience of non-democratic regimes : a case study of the Iranian parliament (Majles)
… the reasons behind the longevity of these regimes. An integral part of these studies is that the institutional arrangements contributed to the survival of autocrats and the maintenance of authoritarian regimes. In particular, they recently began considering the dark side of nominally …
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Outsourcing Security and the Reconfiguration of State Power after the Arab Uprisings
… of the security institutions to state power and regime stability in the Arab region, this research explores how increased privatization and outsourcing of security, amid wider reconfigurations of the market for force, has contributed to the reconfiguration of state power in some of the Arab …
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Mega-events in Kyrgyzstan (1991-2017): Power legitimacy and Unintended/Indirect Nation-building
Attempts of regime survival, in particular a continuous re-election of the ruling regimes, is a common pattern in all post-communist states of Central Asia and beyond. Therefore, for the ruling elites acquiring legitimacy, especially in states with weak governance performance capacity to which most …
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The use of democratic institutions as a strategy to legitimize authoritarian rule.
… institutions usually associated with democratic regimes like a constitution, elections, and a legislature. This seems to be counterintuitive. Authoritarian regimes should rather shrink away from democratic institutions. Elections can be won by the opposition and legislatures can make decisions …
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Political legitimacy, citizens' mobilization, and leaders' survival
Leader survival has been addressed mainly by international relations students, while regime survival and government survival have been dealt with mainly by comparativists. Most stud- ies that examine leaders' survival neglect how their constituents (both voters and nonvoters) view the leaders' …
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North Korea's Policy Toward the United States: Rappochement to Confrontational Diplomacy in the 1970s and the 1990s
… of the purported irrationality of North Korea's regime and its foreign policy is challenged on the grounds that it has not led to a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic of North Korea's foreign policy stance toward the United States. It also has not accounted for North Korea's adjustments …