Kjetil Selvik, Banafsheh Ranji, Elena Şimanschi and Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués discuss the role of media in authoritarian states, illustrated by the examples of Iran and Russia. — The discipline of International Relations has increasingly looked at how authoritarian states, especially in comparison to their democratic counterparts, have a tendency of manipulating narratives around political events, both domestically and internationally. However, if we look a little more closely, and beyond the simple binaries, the picture is less than…