Abstract
DİASPORAYA UZANAN OTORİTERLİK: OTORİTER REJİMLERİN ULUS-ÖTESİ BASKI POLİTİKALARI VE İRAN ÖRNEĞİ
How authoritarian regimes maintain and protect their power is a case that has been studied for a long time. However, this literature developed more nation-centered and envisioned the power struggle at the national level. However, with globalization and developments in information technologies, national borders have been lost and the area of sovereignty has become ambiguous. While it was previously thought that these developments would have negative consequences for authoritarian regimes, over time it was observed that the autocracies adapted to this new era. Today, such regimes do not maintain their power only with the policies in the national borders, but they also developed transnational repression policies. In this study, we will examine the transnational respression policies developed by the Islamic Republic of Iran to control diaspora-based opposition.The main claim of our study is that Iran's diaspora politics is largely similar to other authoritarian regimes and follows the repressive policies they use. Thanks to these policies, the regime was able to maintain its power despite the social demonstrations that have continued since 2009.
Keywords
Authoritarian Regimes, Diaspora Politics, Extraterritorial Repression, Networked Authoritarianism, I
