The relationship between international linkages and the nature and survival of political regimes has gained increasing attention in recent years, but remains one that is poorly understood. In this article, we make three central contributions to our understanding of international linkage politics...

The study of political regimes has been at the heart of political research for many decades, and recent years have seen a renewed wave of attention to hybrid regimes in particular. Hybrid regimes are those political systems that blur the boundaries between previously distinct regime type...