The Effects of Host Country Regime Type on The Nature of Transnational Repression

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2024-07-10

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Authoritarian regimes do not only repress their citizens domestically, but they also repress their diaspora across borders. This phenomenon is called transnational repression. When considering the international context in which transnational repression takes place, this raises questions about the influence of host country contexts on the nature of this phenomenon. Addressing this question, Michealson and Ruijgrok (2023) studied how the host country`s regime type influences the type of transnational repression conducted. Although their study found valuable results, it only engaged in the topic through statistical analyses and failed to go into detail on the mechanisms between the variables. Although they did draw theoretical expectations of how they expected the mechanisms to work, they did not test these mechanisms in an empirical qualitative way. Filling this gap, this thesis addresses the question of what the underlying mechanisms are that explain the influence of the host country regime type on the nature (i.e. type) of transnational repression conducted by autocratic states. The expectations of this thesis rest on Yosi Shain's theoretical model (1989) and the already expected arguments identified in Michealson and Ruijkgrok`s study. Using theory testing process-tracing methods, this thesis conducts a qualitative within-case study of Russian transnational repression practices, which reveals in detail how, confirming the theoretical expectations based on Shain and Michaelson and Ruijgrok, the regime type of the host state influences the nature (i.e. type) of transnational repression.

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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen