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, autocracys 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.
This book revitalizes the discourse on backsliding democracy and the global rise of autocracy, extending the consequences of their changes to a sustainable future.
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 Womens Rights and Opportunities in Sri Lankas 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
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.
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