No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America.
Transnational repression, i.e. the deliberate targeting of refugees and dissidents by states across borders, is a relatively understudied subject in international relations. This article analyzes why states act together to persecute political opponents abroad and explains variations in such practice...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2024
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