The Global Rise of Autocracy

Its Threat to a Sustainable Future
Herausgegeben:Wejnert, Barbara

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Produktbeschreibung

This book revitalizes the discourse on backsliding democracy and the global rise of autocracy, extending the consequences of their changes to a sustainable future.

In three sections, the book systematically examines diverse pathways leading autocracies to rise and spread worldwide and debates the future consequences. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book conceptualizes the rise of autocracy and the backsliding of democracy by studying dictatorship, authoritarianization processes, autocracy's diffusion, and populism. It reveals the global spread of autocracy and reflects on the challenges this poses to, and the likely impacts on, a sustainable future.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of autocracy/autocratization, democracy and democratization, political sociology, sustainability, and more broadly to international relations and comparative politics.

Produktdetails

• Democratization and Autocratization Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781032851075
• ISBN-10: 1032851074
• Artikelnr.: 71911139

Autorenporträt

Barbara Wejnert is Professor in the Department of Environment and Sustainability and an affiliated faculty member at the Jaeckel Center for Law, Democracy, and Governing at the University at Buffalo, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Problematizing Rise of Autocracy and its Consequences for
Sustainable Future Part 1: The State of Democracy and Rise of Autocracy 1.
What Distinguishes "Successful" Democratic Backsliders from Thwarted Ones?
2. Democracy Regression and Autocracy Diffusion: A Conceptual Framework 3.
Democracy, Autocracy, War, and Social Movements: The Russo-Ukrainian War,
Recurrent Processes, and the Many Challenges of Our Own Moment 4. The Past
and Future of Restricted Democracy in the United States Part 2: Backsliding
Democracy and Rise of Authoritarianism: Challenges to Social and
Environmental Sustainability 5. Green Authoritarianism and the Populist
Revolt- the Challenge of Embracing Sustainability Without Succumbing to
Techno-Authoritarianism 6. Networks of Climate Change Sceptics and
Far-Right Narratives in Europe in Sri Lanka 9. The Intersection of Climate
Change, Gender Equality, and Legal Framework: Analyzing the Impact of
Environmental Policies on Women's Rights and Opportunities in Sri Lanka's
Fragile Democracy 10. Coping with the Climate War and Resurgent
Authoritarianism: A View from Taiwan 11. Democratic Resilience: Ukrainian
Alternative to Militant Authoritarianism 12. Understanding Russian Reality
and Attitude towards Ukrainian war through the Lens of Ukrainian and
Russian Media 13. Democratic Backsliding in Federal States 14. Democracy
and Autocracy Impact on Countries' Sustainability: The Tragedy of the
Commons Revisited