Dictators and Their Secret Police Greitens Sheena Chestnut
Dictators and Their Secret Police Greitens Sheena Chestnut How do dictators stay in power? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in…
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Dictators and Their Secret Police Greitens Sheena Chestnut
How do dictators stay in power? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens. When, and how, do they use repression to do so?
Violence against civilians, she suggests, is a byproduct of their attempt to resolve this dilemma. Greitens argues that autocrats face a coercive dilemma: whether to create internal security forces designed to manage popular mobilization, or defend against potential coup. Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule.
It offers an unprecedented view into the use of surveillance, coercion, and
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