Transnational Repression: Trends, Tactics, and Policy Recommendations

Ozeren, Suleyman; Ergene, Ayse; Akca, Davut; Darcan, Emirhan; Cubukcu, Suat (2023). Transnational Repression: Trends, Tactics, and Policy Recommendations (Research Report 7). Orion Policy Institute OPI

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Today, at least 38 countries employ tactics of transnational repression in as many as 91 host states. In what can be called the "toolkit" of authoritarian control, the hydra-heads of transnational repression encompass tactics ranging from surveillance to harassment and intimidation, use of state media, assassinations, spyware, physical violence, abduction, rendition, forcible return, conspiracy, and collaboration with actors in the host country.

A pattern of cooperation with the host country's government emerges with most of the disappearances, extraditions, renditions, and forcible returns. These tactics may take advantage of the absence of the rule of law and political rights or lack of awareness about the extent of the problem in the host country.

While an authoritarian regime may be intent on imposing its own standards on its citizens, few countries do this on their own. Collaboration and collusion between the state of origin and the so-called host country are uppermost in the toolkit of transnational repression.

Item Type:

Report (Report)

Division/Institute:

02 Faculty of Law > Department of Penal Law > Institute for Penal Law and Criminology > Chair Prof. Weber
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Penal Law > Institute for Penal Law and Criminology

UniBE Contributor:

Darcan, Emirhan

Subjects:

000 Computer science, knowledge & systems > 070 News media, journalism & publishing
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services

Series:

Research Report

Publisher:

Orion Policy Institute OPI

Language:

English

Submitter:

Emirhan Darcan

Date Deposited:

26 Sep 2023 11:58

Last Modified:

26 Sep 2023 12:01

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Transnational repression , authoritarian governments , institutional systems , abuse of IGOs

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/186612

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/186612

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