Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling The Thucydidean Brink in Regressive Geopolitical Competition 1st edition by Mika Aaltola 3030546021 9783030546021

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ISBN-10 :  3030546021 

ISBN-13 :  9783030546021

Author: Mika Aaltola 

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 societiescan 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.

Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling: The “Thucydidean Brink” in Regressive Geopolitical Competition 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. The Thucydidean Brink
3. Grim Pull of US Democratic Vulnerability
4. Russian Cyber-Enabled Diversions in the West
5. The Pattern of Meddling in 2016 US Elections
6. Stages of Digitalized Regressive Meddling in Three Western Elections
7. Crowdsourcing Meddling and Keeping Voters in Flow-State
8. The Chinese Recruitment Web as a Contrast Point
9. Spectre of Thucydides: Pandemic Catalyzes Deepening Regressive Trajectories

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