Regional Organisations as Transmission Belts of Authoritarian Practices, Ideas and Norms

Abstract

Despite the ‘waves of democratization’ throughout the last century, empirical evidence has underlined the emergence and resilience of clusters of authoritarianism in the world. Moreover, one can even notice a ‘pressure for autocratization’ emanating from certain non-democratic regimes that seek cooperation and legitimation in their immediate neighborhood. But, to what extent do regional organizations (RO) play a role for this phenomenon of authoritarian clustering? From a comparative perspective this panel focuses on regional autocratic clusters from different conceptual perspectives and encompasses contributions on Latin America, the Middle East and (Central) Asia.

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