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Pedro Seabra and Ana L\u00facia S\u00e1 publish article on \u201carrested democratisation\u201d in Equatorial Guinea<\/h2>\n

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CEI-Iscte researchers Pedro Seabra<\/strong> and Ana L\u00facia S\u00e1<\/strong> are the authors of the article International organisations and arrested democratisation: Equatorial Guinea and the accession to the CPLP<\/em><\/strong>, recently published in Contemporary Politics<\/em>, a leading Q1 journal in Political Science.<\/p>\n

The article examines the impact of authoritarian states joining international organisations of a democratic nature, focusing on Equatorial Guinea and its accession to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) in 2014. Although presented at the time as a promising first step towards democratisation, a decade later there has been no significant domestic progress.<\/p>\n

The authors argue that such cases of \u201carrested democratisation\u201d call for closer analysis of the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes and of the quality of the institutional mechanisms for democratic inducement offered by international organisations.<\/p>\n

The work contributes to the debate on the limits of external influence on the political transformation of authoritarian regimes.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Originally published by <\/em>CEI-Iscte<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CEI-Iscte researchers Pedro Seabra and Ana L\u00facia S\u00e1 have published an article in Contemporary Politics on Equatorial Guinea\u2019s accession to the CPLP and the limits of external influence on the democratisation of authoritarian regimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-en","category-316","description-off"],"yoast_head":"\nArrested democratisation in Equatorial Guinea: new article | ODRP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pedro Seabra and Ana L\u00facia S\u00e1 analyse Equatorial Guinea\u2019s accession to the CPLP and the limits of international organisations in promoting democratisation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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