This article theorises the repressive security practices of authoritarian states in the context of transnationalism and globalisation. While emerging research on transnational repression has identified a range of extraterritorial and exceptional security practices adopted by authoritarian states, it has not fully studied the implications of such practices on space and statecraft. Using data from the Central Asia Political Exile Database project (CAPE) and interviews conducted with exiled Tajik opposition groups based in Russia and Europe, we theorise the spatial connections between the territorial and extraterritorial security practices using the concept of assemblages. We further outline how these practices escalate in a three-stage model, in which exiles go on notice, are detained and then rendered or assassinated. Such an approach sheds light on the inherent links between the normalisation of security practices and the creation of transnational space with distinct forms of geographical state power that is embedded in non-national spaces and is manifested through spatially organised actors, networks, and technologies within assemblages.

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通过跨国镇压将国家实践空间化

本文理论化了威权国家在跨国主义和全球化背景下的压制性安全实践。虽然关于跨国镇压的新兴研究已经确定了威权国家采用的一系列域外和特殊安全做法，但它还没有充分研究这些做法对太空和治国之道的影响。使用来自中亚政治流亡数据库项目 (CAPE) 的数据以及对俄罗斯和欧洲流亡塔吉克反对派团体进行的采访，我们使用集合的概念对领土和域外安全实践之间的空间联系进行了理论分析。我们进一步概述了这些做法是如何在一个三阶段模型中升级的，在该模型中，流放者受到通知、被拘留、然后被送交或暗杀。