The Global Rise of Autocracy

Its Threat to a Sustainable Future
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85108-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Democratization and Autocratization Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wejnert, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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  7. Inclusive Development, Sustainability, and Democracy: Illusive Goals in the Context of Neo-Liberalism, Populism and Resurgent Authoritarianism in Sri Lanka  8. The Church in Ukraine: A Century-Long Movement “Away from Moscow”  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  Part 3: Retrospectively Looking Forward to the Future  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

Über Autor(innen)

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.