Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation

<p>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. </p><p></p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of <em>Democratization</em>. </p>