Martin Dimitrov

Martin Dimitrov's picture
Name: 
Martin Dimitrov
About : 
Martin K. Dimitrov is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. His books include Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and The Politics of Socialist Consumption (Ciela Publishers, 2017). He has held residential fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, Notre Dame, the University of Helsinki, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is currently completing a book entitled Dictatorship and Information: Autocratic Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China.

From this author

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 15:45 0
Secrecy is a fundamental feature of politics in autocracies. Underscoring this point, a scholar has recently argued that we need to draw a distinction between the public artifacts of...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 11:00 0

The collapse of ten communist regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia in 1989-1991 was one of the most important events of the twentieth century. Equally...