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  • The authoritarian challenge: liberal thinking on autocracy and international relations, 1930–45
  • Matthew Draper, Stephan Haggard
  • Journal: International Theory , First View
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2022, pp. 1-26
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    The return of authoritarian great powers, the slowing of the democratic wave, and outright reversion to authoritarian rule pose important questions for international theory. What are the implications of an international system populated with more autocracies? This question was posed by a diverse array of social scientists, public intellectuals, and policy analysts in response to the autocratic wave in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. We show that a series of conversations emanating from quite diverse intellectual priors – from Christian realists to international lawyers and disaffected Marxists – converged on the risks these autocratic regimes posed to democratic regimes and the international order they sought to forge. These risks included unconstrained rulers, an inability to sustain international commitments and political processes that undermined rational deliberation at home and spread disinformation abroad. The reading of this work suggests an under-appreciated strand of liberal international relations theory, and these debates have direct implications for liberal arguments about the democratic peace. Rather than theorizing why democracies avoid war, they underscore the importance of understanding why authoritarian and democratic countries are particularly prone to conflict.

  • The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America
  • Stephan Haggard
  • Journal: Latin American Research Review / Volume 24 / Issue 1 / 1989
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2022, pp. 184-208
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  • The Politics of Decentralization in Latin America
  • Eliza Willis, Christopher da C. B. Garman, Stephan Haggard
  • Journal: Latin American Research Review / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / 1999
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2022, pp. 7-56
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    One of the most significant developments in Latin American politics and political economy in the last two decades has been the increasing decentralization of government. This development has generated a substantial literature on the pros and cons of decentralization and on subnational politics but few attempts to explain differences in the pattern of decentralization across countries. Fiscal decentralization must be understood as a political bargain involving presidents, legislators, and subnational politicians, each having somewhat conflicting preferences. How these bargains are struck will depend heavily on the lines of accountability within political parties. In systems with centralized political parties, the central government has exercised greater control over resources and uses than in countries with decentralized parties, in which subnational politicians exercise strong influence over legislators. The article explores this hypothesis through a comparative analysis of decentralization in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Mexico.

  • POWER SHIFTS: CONNECTING IR THEORY WITH THE CHINESE CASE – CORRIGENDUM
  • Joshua Shifrinson, Stephan Haggard
  • Journal: Journal of East Asian Studies / Volume 21 / Issue 2 / July 2021
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2021, p. 365
  • Print publication: July 2021
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Backsliding
  • Backsliding
  • Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World
  • Stephan Haggard, Robert Kaufman
  • Published online: 19 January 2021
  • Print publication: 11 February 2021
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    Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail political and civil liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral system. Drawing on detailed case studies, including the United States and countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, the book focuses on three, inter-related causal mechanisms: the pernicious effects of polarization; realignments of party systems that enable elected autocrats to gain legislative power; and the incremental nature of derogations, which divides oppositions and keeps them off balance. A concluding chapter looks at the international context of backsliding and the role of new technologies in these processes. An online appendix provides detailed accounts of backsliding in 16 countries, which can be found at www.cambridge.org/backsliding.
  • 1 - Introduction
  • from Part I - Historicizing East Asian International Relations
  • Edited by Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego, David C. Kang, University of Southern California
  • Book: East Asia in the World
  • Published online: 08 October 2020
  • Print publication: 29 October 2020, pp 3-21
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    Summary

    The purpose of this book is straightforward: to remedy this lacuna by providing an introduction to the international relations of Asia looked at over a longue duree: from the seventh century through 1900, when contact with the West finally destroyed the old order. We seek to offer an accessible overview of the evolution of the East Asian international system through what might be called the “early Westphalian” history of the region, which we date to the nineteenth century. The broader purpose is not just didactic. Rather, we also want to force a consideration of the implications of these cases for international relations theory. Long understudied by mainstream international relations scholars, the East Asian historical experience provides an enormous wealth of new and different cases which promise to enrich a theoretical literature largely derived from the Western experience.

East Asia in the World
  • East Asia in the World
  • Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order
  • Edited by Stephan Haggard, David C. Kang
  • Published online: 08 October 2020
  • Print publication: 29 October 2020
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    This innovative volume provides an introduction to twelve seminal events in the international relations of East Asia prior to 1900: twelve events that everyone interested in the history of world politics should know. The East Asian historical experience provides a wealth of new and different cases, patterns, and findings that will expand horizons from the Western, Eurocentric experience. Written by an international team of historians and political scientists, these essays draw attention to the China-centered East Asian order – with its long history of dominance – and what this order might tell us about the current epoch.

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