Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation : Interests vs. Ideology, EPUB eBook

Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation : Interests vs. Ideology EPUB

Edited by Andre Bank, Kurt Weyland

Part of the Democratization Special Issues series

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To shed light on the global reassertion of authoritarianism in recent years, this volume analyses transnational diffusion and international cooperation among non-democratic regimes.

How and with what effect do authoritarian regimes learn from each other?

For what purpose and how successfully do they cooperate?

The volume highlights that present-day autocrats pursue mainly pragmatic interests, rather than ideological missions.

Consequently, the connections among authoritarian regimes have primarily defensive purposes, especially insulation against democracy promotion by the West.

As a result, the authors do not foresee a major recession of democracy, as occurred with the rise of fascism during the interwar years.

The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of Democratization.

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