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...

This paper examines the representations of violence in Guatemalan and El Salvadoran literature against the backdrop of persistently high levels of violence and crime following the civil wars in both countries. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach settled within cultural studies and uses two...