Extraterritorial authoritarian practices: a framework
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This introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Authoritarian rule of populations abroad’ develops a new theory to better understand how authoritarian rule is exercised over populations abroad and to connect this extraterritorial dimension to the character and resilience of contemporary authoritarian rule. Authoritarian states today have various motivations for tolerating or even sponsoring their population's mobility, and they have learnt to manage and offset the risks population mobility poses to them. The key to understanding the particularities of authoritarian mobility management is that it does not approach its populations, abroad or at home, as citizens with rights. The authoritarian state can adapt to the specific assets and insecurities of populations abroad with policies to include or exclude them as subjects or outlaws, as patriots or traitors, or as clients. The article concludes that authoritarian rule should not be considered a territorially bounded regime type, but rather as a mode of governing people through a distinct set of practices.
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- Authors
- Glasius, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Glasius, Marlies
- Venue
- Globalizations
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-12-07
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 179-197
- ISSN
- 1474-7731 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-774X
- OpenAlex
- W2773536078
- Cited by
- 202
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 31.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Globalizations (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- University of Amsterdam
- European Research Council (FP7/2007–2013, 323899)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Keywords
- authoritarian governance, human mobility, authoritarian state, governance practices, clientelism
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