In person icon Democracies and the Autocratic Challenge

Abstract

Extensive scholarly work has engaged with the ways that autocrats have challenged global governance frameworks by violating international law, blocking proposals, creating new institutions, subverting norms and discursively constructing alternative economic, security and cultural orders. This panel invites paper submission that analyze how democratic countries globally perceive and reacted to the “autocratic challenge”. Do they see the opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation decreasing at all? Is non-cooperative behavior traced back to the non-democratic constitution of the challenger or attributed to other factors? What determines whether democracies take an accommodative or exclusionary stance towards autocratic challengers? What role do international organizations’ secretariats play in constructing the autocratic challenge and devising responses? We seek submissions presenting original qualitative or quantitative empirical work which investigates the time trends, cross-country, or cross-institutional variation in democratic responses to the autocratic challenge.

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