This paper examines the relationship between the militarisation of COVID-19 state responses and autocratisation in eight Asian and Latin American countries. Using a conceptual framework of COVID-19-related military missions and operations, our findings for each country over the first two...

The crisis of 2001 and Argentine democracy / Edward Epstein and David Pion-Berlin -- The democratic process in Argentina / José Nun -- Police, politics, and society in the province of Buenos Aires / Marcelo Fabián Sain -- The costs of the convertibility plan: the economic and social effects of...

Based on current literature, this paper analyses the nature and effects of external pressure imposed on authoritarian regimes. Around three-quarters of all countries under United Nations, United States, and European Union sanctions are authoritarian, and “democracy sanctions” that aim at...