Democratic vulnerability and autocratic meddling : the "Thucydidean Brink" in regressive geopolitical competition / Mika Aaltola.
Aaltola, Mika, author.
2021
JA76
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Title Democratic vulnerability and autocratic meddling : the "Thucydidean Brink" in regressive geopolitical competition / Mika Aaltola.
Author Aaltola, Mika, author.
ISBN 9783030546021 (electronic bk.)
3030546020 (electronic bk.)
3030546012
9783030546014
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54602-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-54602-1 doi
Call Number JA76
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.2
Summary 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 ones 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. Mika Aaltola is Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland, and Professor of International Relations at Tallinn University, Estonia.
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1. Introduction
2. The Thucydidean Brink
3. Grim Pull of American Democratic Vulnerability
4. Russian Cyber-enabled Diversions in the West
5. Pattern of Meddling in 2016 US Elections
6. Stages of Digitalized regressive Meddling
7. Crowdsourced Meddling and Flow-State
8. Contrast Point: The Chinese Recruitment Web
9. Covid-19 Pandemic Deepening Regressive Trajectories.

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