International Cooperation between Radical Right-Wing Parties A New Threat to Global Democracy?
Héctor Briceño, PhD Since its peak in 2005, when over half of the world's countries were considered democracies, democracy has experienced a wave of autocratization. This wave is perhaps the most significant since the 1930s, with fragile and consolidated democracies experiencing significant setbacks and, in some cases, even democratic breakdowns (Lührmann & Lindberg, 2019; Briceño, 2023). Conversely, authoritarian regimes undergo a process of expansion while strengthening their capacity for political resilience and promoting their legitimacy as a global alternative to Western democracy. Figure 1 illustrates the complexity of this phenomenon by showing the number of democratic transitions and authoritarian regressions since the beginning of the twentieth century. Following the fall of the Soviet bloc in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the number of democratizations reached its peak and has since progressively decreased. Conversely, the number of aut...
