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Hostile Forces by Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones

Current price: $34.97
Hostile Forces by Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Hostile Forces by Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Hostile Forces by Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones

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How do authoritarian regimes deal with pressure from the international community? China's leaders have been subject to decades of international attention, condemnation, resolutions, boycotts, and sanctions over their treatment of human rights. We assume that hearing about all this pressurewill make the public more concerned about human rights, and so regimes like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should do what they can to prevent this from happening. In Hostile Forces, Jamie Gruffydd-Jones argues that while international pressure may indeed embarrass authoritarian leaders on theinternational stage, it may, in fact, benefit them at home. The targets of human rights pressure, regimes like the Communist Party, are not merely passive recipients, but actors who can proactively shape and deploy that pressure for their own advantage. Taking us through an exploration of the history of the Communist Party's reactions to foreign pressure, from condemnation of Mao's crackdowns in Tibet to outrage at the outbreak of COVID-19, analysis of a novel database drawn from state media archives, as well as multiple survey experiments andhundreds of interviews, Gruffydd-Jones shows that the CCP uses the most 'hostile' pressure strategically - and successfully - to push citizens to view human rights in terms of international geopolitics rather than domestic injustice, and reduce their support for change. The book shines a light onhow regimes have learnt to manage, manipulate, and resist foreign pressure on their human rights, and illustrates how support for authoritarian and nationalist policies might grow in the face of a liberal international system. | Hostile Forces by Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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