Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation
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.
Andr Bank is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He has published on authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East.
Kurt Weyland is the Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has published extensively on democratisation, populism, and policy diffusion in Europe and Latin America.
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Contents
Kurt Weyland
Kurt Weyland
Carlos de la Torre
May Darwich
Aron Buzogny
Jason Brownlee
Andr Bank
Guide
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Democratization, volume 24, issue 7 (December 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
- Autocratic diffusion and cooperation: the impact of interests vs. ideology
- Kurt Weyland
- Democratization, volume 24, issue 7 (December 2017) pp. 12351252
Chapter 2
- Fascisms missionary ideology and the autocratic wave of the interwar years
- Kurt Weyland
- Democratization, volume 24, issue 7 (December 2017) pp. 12531270
Chapter 3
- Hugo Chvez and the diffusion of Bolivarianism
- Carlos de la Torre
- Democratization, volume 24, issue 7 (December 2017) pp. 12711288
Chapter 4
- Creating the enemy, constructing the threat: the diffusion of repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East
- May Darwich
- Democratization, volume 24, issue 7 (December 2017) pp. 12891306
Chapter 5
- Illiberal democracy in Hungary: authoritarian diffusion or domestic causation?
- Aron Buzogny
- Democratization, volume 24, issue 7 (December 2017) pp. 13071325
Chapter 6
- The limited reach of authoritarian powers
- Jason Brownlee
- Democratization, volume 24, issue 7 (December 2017) pp. 13261344
Chapter 7
- The study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation: comparative lessons on interests versus ideology, nowadays and in history
- Andr Bank
- Democratization, volume 24, issue 7 (December 2017) pp. 13451357
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Andr Bank is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He has published on authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East.
Jason Brownlee is a Professor of Government and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, where he researches and teaches about authoritarianism and foreign military intervention.
Aron Buzogny is an Assistant Professor for Political Science with the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
May Darwich is an Assistant Professor and a Lecturer in International Relations of the Middle East at Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on identity and security politics in Middle Eastern international relations.
Carlos de la Torre is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA. He is the author of 12 books and edited volumes. He edited the