Tobias Zumbrägel

TL;DR: The evidence of regional authoritarian clustering across different world regions goes together with the finding that after the end of the bipolar world regional patterns of interaction beca... as discussed by the authors, the evidence of region-specific clustering is stronger than global clustering.

TL;DR: In 2011 mass protests began to rapidly spread across the Middle East and scholarly attention shifted to the Gulf region, which not only remained resilient but rather asserted its authoritarian rule as mentioned in this paper, and the region became a hotbed of unrest.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore three transregional public-private elite networks as multipliers for the traveling of authoritarian practices and show that authoritarian diffusion under the umbrella of fighting the pandemic is not spatially bound to geographical proximity or other structural similarities but rather a global phenomenon that state and non-state actors reproduce.

TL;DR: A trend toward autocratization and authoritarian clustering took place between 2001 and 2015 in the three world regions of Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia as mentioned in this paper, where Venezuela was able to establish itself as the protagonist of an authoritarian gravity center in an environment of eroding democracy in Latin America.