Are democracies in danger? In “Le pacte des autocrates” published by Robert Laffont, Isabelle Mandraud and Julien Théron analyze the decline of democracies around the world and the repeated efforts of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping to challenge the international order inherited from the Second World War. An unwritten pact which aims to weaken democratic systems with the help of countries like India, Turkey, Iran, Syria which take advantage of the movement to consolidate their interests. Isabelle Mandraud, deputy head of the international daily service The world interview with Sylvie Noël.