When Democracy Freezes, Autocrats Rise By Robert Misik Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.

VIENNA, Austria, Jan 5 2026 (IPS) - Consider our political systems not merely as battlegrounds of passions, ideologies and economic interests, but as systematically functioning arrangements of interactions, akin to game theory. In recent decades, we have witnessed the dissolution of large homogeneous groups into numerous subgroups — a patchwork of minorities. https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/01/when-democracy-freezes-autocrats-rise/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=US_Withdrawal_From_Organizations_Triggers_Global_Alarm_Maternal_Deaths_Spike_in_WarTorn_Ukraine_and_ Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.