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Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling - The "Thucydidean Brink" in Regressive Geopolitical Competition (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling - The "Thucydidean Brink" in Regressive Geopolitical Competition (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book investigates complex regressive dynamics in contemporary
Western democracies. They include not only severe polarization in
domestic politics, but also efforts by external autocratic powers
to co-opt the increasingly digitalized political processes in the
West. The discussion on democratic vulnerability and regression has
rarely been historically and theoretically reflective. The aim is
to fill this relative void by drawing on classical sources to
inform about the political anxieties and agitations of our present
time as the Western world moves towards new critical elections. The
key concept of the analysis, a Thucydidean brink, refers to a
critical point where the attraction felt towards an outside
geopolitical competitor becomes stronger than the political
affinity felt towards one's domestic political opponent. As
political polarization, societal decomposition and the collusive
tendencies grow in strength, political factions and political
candidates in western societies can be(come) drawn to autocratic
actors. Perhaps most alarmingly, the resulting nexus between
democracies and autocracies can further intensify mutual regression
and form downwards-sloping spirals that are not ultimately under
any strategic control. This book draws from the experiences of
recent elections in major Western democracies to illustrate the
widening and deepening underlying regressive tendency.
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