drawn from Iran, the Soviet Union/Russia and Egypt. …Resource-rich dictatorships are more inclined to repress civil society than others. In this paper, we identify a … tradeoff between political rents from natural resources and the organizational density of civil society. This organizational …

term. As Russia’s aggressive wars are a consequence of the personalist dictatorship that has embraced the imperialist idea …The current wave of emigrants from Russia can play an important role in the country's political transition in the long …