Democratic Crossroads

Transformations in Twenty First-Century Politics

Richard Youngs (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776242-4 (ISBN)

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After more than a decade of democratic regression, three major crises have acted to reshape global politics in recent years: climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic legacy, and geopolitical conflict. In Democratic Crossroads, Richard Youngs argues these crises are altering the balance between democratic and authoritarian dynamics around the world. Yet while they add to the strains on democracy, they are also awakening a momentum of democratic resilience and renewal. He argues that to deal with the era's momentous challenges, democratic politics need a major boost and reboot. Without stronger commitments to uphold and improve democratic norms and practices, democracy may not weather these challenges. As Youngs shows, far-reaching democratic innovation that gives citizens effective influence over epoch-defining matters will help ensure that democratic values are more vigorously defended. In a moment of pivotal change, this book explains how democracies can retain their resiliency and highlights the key factors that will determine democracy's fortunes in the future.

Richard Youngs is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and professor of international relations at the University of Warwick. He was previously director of the Fride think-tank in Madrid and senior analyst at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is co-founder of the European Democracy Hub and author of fifteen previous books, including Civic Activism Unleashed (Oxford 2019).

Foreword
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Democracy's Altered Context
Chapter Three: Climate Crisis and Democracy
Chapter Four: Snapshot: Global Climate Assembly
Chapter Five: Covid-19 and Post-neoliberalism
Chapter Six: Snapshot: The EU's New Political Economy
Chapter Seven: The New Geopolitics and War on Ukraine
Chapter Eight: Snapshot: Ukraine's Civic Resilience
Chapter Nine: Conclusion
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Zusatzinfo	3 b/w figures; 8 tables; 1 map
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 226 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-776242-5 / 0197762425
ISBN-13	978-0-19-776242-4 / 9780197762424
Zustand	Neuware