Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling: The "Thucydidean Brink" in Regressive Geopolitical

1.      Introduction

            Emerging Geo-Gigital Power Practices

            The Thucydidean Brink and Regressive Coupling

            References

2.      The Thucydidean Brink

            From Democracy into Autocracy

            Thucydidean Model of Political Regression

            Stages of Regressive Slide

            Six-Stage regression Scale

            References

3.      Grim Pull of American Democratic Vulnerability

            Pull of State Drama in the US

            Attraction of Drama Internally and Externally

            Modes of Regression and American Political Religion

            Global Appeal

            References

4.      Russian Cyber-enabled Diversions in the West

            Geostrategic Transformation towards Domains

            Russian Showcasing Western Weakness through Cyber

            References

5.      Pattern of Meddling in 2016 US Elections

            The Hacking of the 2016 US Elections

            Destabilizing and InfluencingForeign Policy Debates

            Democratic Vulnerability

            References

6.      Stages of Digitalized regressive Meddling

            Targetting and Timing

            French and German Elections: Downstream and Blowback Effects

            Lessons Learnt

            References

7.      Crowdsourced Meddling and Flow-State

            Crowdsourcing as internal/external interface

            References

8.      Contrast Point: The Chinese Recruitment Web

            LinkedIn as a Chinese Influence Vector

            Power-Political Vulnerability of the Digitalized Public Sphere

            Implications and Counter-Measures

            References

9.      Covid-19 Pandemic Catalyzes Deepening Regressive Trajectories

            Regression Makes Epidemics Worse

            Covid-19 Inevitably Promotes Further Division

            References