Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (Lats) dataset

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ID10149492
AutoresMatias Spektor (0000-0003-3125-9181, School of International Relations, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil, autor correspondente), Marcos Fernandes (0000-0001-9632-6627, Universidade de São Paulo), Lucas De Oliveira Paes (0000-0003-1207-9986, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), J Pola (Institute of Public Affairs), João Victor Dalla Pola (Ipsos Public Affairs, Brazil), Vitor Loureiro Sion (Independent Researcher, Brazil)
Ano2024
Volume62
Fascículo4
Páginas1262-1278
Data de publicação2024-10-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00223433241268837
OpenAlexW4403991413
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas44

Transnational surveillance is a powerful tool in the arsenal of autocrats the world over. Despite its pervasive use in extraterritorial coercion, the systematic study of surveillance of regime opponents beyond national borders remains underdeveloped in political science, primarily due to limited data availability. To help fill this gap, we constructed the Latin American Transnational Surveillance dataset, a micro-level dataset based on declassified foreign surveillance reports produced between 1966 and 1986 by autocratic Brazil. Latin American Transnational Surveillance records the identity, locations, social ties and political activism of 17,000 individual targets of transnational surveillance, the vast majority of whom were tracked in neighbouring countries across Latin America. Drawing on these abundant data, we empirically explore existing theoretical insights about the motivations, methods and consequences of transnational surveillance, a task that would be difficult to do using other sources. We also leverage social network analysis to showcase potential applications of Latin American Transnational Surveillance in the testing of collective-action theories of transnational political violence

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