“Democracy Crises. Challenges, Management and the New Security Threats”

Abstract

During the past few decades, democracy crises have spread all over the world. Economic, financial, or migration crises have been most representative and challenging, proving how strongly and globaly these phenomena have impacted the democracies worldwide during the past two decades or more. From the global financial crisis in 2008 to the migration and climate change crises, democracies have often suffered stepbacks, while resilience to threats against democratic regimes seems hard to build in poor economic situations or military conflicts and war developments. Both Western and Eastern European countries have their own share of crisis associated with the war in Ukraine and also with the raise of populist and extreme-right phenomena. The new security threats studies have provided rich analysis material for understanding the complexity of the side-effects of such crises, which have deeply penetrated society and polity as well. The studies in this panel cover the phenomenology of direct and side effects of democracy crises and their impact on risk analysis and scenario development about how future might look like after crisis

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