Priyamvada Gopal is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at Churchill College, Cambridge University. He has also written a recent report for LSE IDEAS, Authoritarian Protectionism in CESEE: Diversity, Commonality, Resistanceand is a co-host of the Another Europe podcast. Taking as its starting point the idea of ‘authoritarian protectionism’ – recently proposed as a way of understanding the appeal of these forces – this panel will address these questions, consider points of commonality and difference among cases of the new authoritarianism and discuss how democratic politics can recover its vitality with a new emancipatory agenda.ĭr Luke Cooper is an associate researcher and consultant at LSE IDEAS and author of Authoritarian Contagion the Global Threat to Democracy (BUP, 2021). What is the source of this appeal and potency? What structural forces are propelling forward this challenge to liberalism and the rule of law? What are the implications of these trends for international politics? And what – exactly – can democrats do to withstand them? Against a backdrop of growing social and ecological crisis, the new authoritarianism has found a wide appeal amongst populaces all over the world.
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