China has significantly expanded its security cooperation with other authoritarian regimes over the past decade. In her article for the European Journal of International Security, Sabine Mokry argues that existing research struggles to capture the informal and ambiguous nature of these relationships. To bridge this gap, she develops a new conceptualisation of ‘security ties’ grounded in the logic of authoritarian rule.
You can find her article here.
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