Alexander Dukalskis - Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dukalskis, Alexander, author.

Title: Making the world safe for dictatorship / Alexander Dukalskis.

Description: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2021. |

Includes bibliographical references. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2020051765 (print) | LCCN 2020051766 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780197520130 (hardback) | ISBN 9780197520161 (oso) | ISBN 9780197520147 (updf) |

ISBN 9780197520154 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: AuthoritarianismPublic relations. |

AuthoritarianismPress coverage. | Mass media and propaganda. |

Mass media and public opinion.

Classification: LCC JC480 .D85 2021 (print) | LCC JC480 (ebook) |

DDC 320.53dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051765

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051766

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197520130.001.0001

Books take a long time to research and write, so some people mentioned here may not even remember that they helped me. But I remember and I am grateful to them for their time, generosity, and intellect. As is customary, all errors and shortcomings are my own and no one mentioned in the following should be held responsible for them.

Many people provided feedback on draft chapters, working papers, and/or conference papers that ultimately comprised this book. Id like to thank (in alphabetical order): Fiona Adamson, Julia Bader, Darren Byler, Marie-Eve Desrosiers, Julia Grauvogel, Kingsley Edney, Sandra Fahy, Saipira Furstenberg, Johannes Gerschewski, Seva Gunitsky, John Heathershaw, Edward Howell, Seraphine Maerz, Maria Repnikova, Andy Storey, Oisn Tansey, Ben Tonra, Ernesto Verdeja, Christian von Soest, and Yaqiu Wang. Participants in the 2019 European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions workshop Authoritarianism Beyond the State provided insights and comments that improved the project. Colleagues at UCD provided helpful comments when I presented this project there in February 2020. Two anonymous reviewers for OUP read the manuscript closely and provided useful suggestions. Many thanks to Angela Chnapko at OUP for seeing value in the project and shepherding it through to completion.

Several people helped facilitate my fieldwork in Japan. I owe Markus Bell a particularly deep debt of gratitude for introducing me to colleagues and contacts and explaining Chongryon and the Korean community in Japan to me. Apichai Shipper, Kanae Doi, and several others were generous with their time and trust. Ryo Watanuki provided excellent research assistance. And, of course, I am truly appreciative of the people who agreed to be interviewed to help me understand Chongryon.

For research in China, I will not identify names, but if you are reading this and recognize yourself in the pages that follow, please know that I am grateful for your time and generosity.

Several people helped this project by contributing excellent research assistance. Eman Abboud, Junhyoung Lee, and Redmond Scales were instrumental in constructing the Authoritarian Actions Abroad Database. Emily Weinstein, Mathieu Doogan, Emir Yazici, and Artur Holavin all contributed by searching non-English media for new cases and verifying details of existing ones. Junhyoung Lee and Redmond Scales helped to gather FARA filings, track down North Korean friendship groups, and organize references. Many thanks to all of you. Thanks also to Amanda Bell for constructing the index.