Aug 2026· Southeastern Europe· 0 citations· 114 references
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Authoritarian states engage in transnational repression to control dissent beyond their borders, often relying on host-state cooperation. Yet less is known about how host-state elite configurations, governing practices and sovereignty shape the effectiveness of such efforts. This article examines the limits of Turkey’s transnational authoritarianism in Kosovo between 2013 and 2025. Contributing to the literature on transnational repression, gatekeeper elites, and ontological security, it argues that Kosovo’s fragmented elites and sovereignty concerns constrained Turkey’s ability to sustain repression, even where patron–client relations existed. Empirically, the article draws on 32 semi-structured interviews and an unpublished parliamentary report. Its empirical case studies analyze the 2018 deportation of Turkish citizens, trace the reconfiguration of Turkish influence after Kosovo’s 2021 government change, and examine a failed attempt by Turkey to mobilize diaspora loyalty through non-coercive means. The findings highlight the conditional, politically costly and reversible nature of transnational authoritarianism in fragmented political environments.
While there is a broad literature on the policies of authoritarian regimes toward their populations abroad, we know far less about the inclusionary and exclusionary policies of authoritarian host states toward displaced populations residing within their own territories. This article examines how Uyghur refugees who fle...
Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar is often portrayed as monolithic, yet fractures persist within its core constituencies. This article examines why Rakhine nationalists, once aligned with the state's exclusionary Buddhist nationalism during the 2012 anti-Muslim violence, have become leading actors in armed resistance aga...
Tian Zhang, Fang-Liang Zhang· Journal of Current Southeast...· 0 citations
Research on post-2011 Middle East and North Africa transitions has examined divergent regional trajectories, but little explains what follows complete institutional collapse in conflict-affected settings, or how domestic political factors shape such paths. This article addresses that gap by analysing how domestic polit...
This article examines whether and how transitions from semi-presidentialism to parlia-mentarism in hybrid regimes may function as strategies of authoritarian adaptation under conditions that constrain overt term-limit evasion. Focusing on Armenia and Georgia, the study combines a comparative contextual analysis of stak...
Jenny Åberg, Thomas Sedelius· Contemporary Politics· 0 citations
Abstract In a previous volume of this journal, scholars of consociational power-sharing counselled against reform of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing institutions. Since then, repeated episodes of collapse and dysfunction have necessitated reconsideration of the case for institutional reform. This article argues that a...
Sean Haughey, Jonathan Tonge, Ben Rosher· Government and Opposition· 0 citations
What drives mainstream stateless nationalist parties to adopt Atakan Çiftçi secessionist positions? Over the past decade, independence referendums in Catalonia and Scotland have made this question a timely and crucial topic in studies of political parties and nationalism. Although these referendums did not result in th...
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