Gravity centres of authoritarian rule: a conceptual approach

Democratization

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 775-796

  Kneuer, Marianne ^a   Demmelhuber, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

autocracies; diffusion; foreign policy; gravity centres; promotion of autocracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930151250     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2015.1018898     Document Type: Article

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