fragility of immature democracies

This “field” was hard to name, but there is something common here. Poland, Eastern Europe with its legal and economical history, Israel of course, all these countries are doing something weird, for various reasons. I am trying to explore this field, maybe in a way that Franz Fanon was trying to describe the processes going on (I am not comparing myself to him of course, just trying to sketch the field I am alluding to). The word “immature”, my students hate when I use it. But it is not an insult, it is (or not, it is an open question) a statement of a fact that young democracies did not have time to develop a robust and critical relationship to their own history and identity. I am not saying: “you’re immature, go back to autocracy!”. I am saying: “One needs to be careful here, the fragilities are bigger than elsewhere, we all need to take our time”.

Russian war against Ukraine of course amplified this interest

Publications

Talks and organized events

  • Co-organisation of a symposium (with Julie Saada, Guillaume Tusseau & Soraya Amrani-Mekki) : Judicial reforms and their ambiguous relation to democracy – 1989-2023Intensive Doctoral Week at Sciences Po Paris / Semaine doctorale intensive Sciences Po – SDI / événement SFPJ (Société française pour la philosophie et la théorie juridiques et politiques), June 13, 2023, Paris (9:00-13:00, in person & online) – recording.
  • Co-organisation of a symposium : Les usages politiques de l’histoire en Russie et en Ukraine. Entre le droit et la géopolitique – The Political Uses of History in Russia and UkraineBetween Law and Geopolitics, June 14, 2022, à Sciences Po Paris, avec Julie Saada.
  • Talk : « Les savoirs et le besoin de l’immédiat : de l’épistémologie du populisme », Journées de travail consacrées au thème: Le désir de l’immédiat et la crise des formes de la médiation dans la culture contemporaine. L’homme rivé dans un environnement nébuleux, au Centre Scientifique de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences à Paris, organisée par Andrzej Leder (IFiS PAN, Varsovie) et Paul Zawadzki (CNRS), 20-21 septembre 2022, Paris. 
  • Co-organisation of a symposium : Le droit contre l’Etat de droit – Anti-liberal Legal Changes in Democracies, June 20, 2019, Sciences Po Paris, with SFPJ Société française pour la philosophie et la théorie juridiques et politiques.

Leave a comment