Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation

André Bank is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He has published on authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East. Kurt Weyland is the Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has published extensively on democratisation, populism, and policy diffusion in Europe and Latin America.

• 1. Autocratic diffusion and cooperation: the impact of interests vs. ideology Kurt Weyland 2. Fascism’s missionary ideology and the autocratic wave of the interwar years Kurt Weyland 3. Hugo Chávez and the diffusion of Bolivarianism Carlos de la Torre 4. Creating the enemy, constructing the threat: the diffusion of repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East May Darwich 5. Illiberal democracy in Hungary: authoritarian diffusion or domestic causation? Aron Buzogány 6. The limited reach of authoritarian powers Jason Brownlee 7. The study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation: comparative lessons on interests versus ideology, nowadays and in history André Bank